Hart, David M.Davis, Theodore2014-08-282014-08-282013-08https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8797The concept of brain drain contends that the migration of highly-skilled individuals benefits receiving countries at the expense of sending countries. Though research supports this concept, several cases have been documented whereby a positive-sum relationship evolved for services that can be characterized as tradable. The research presented herein seeks to understand the extent of the relationship between the nature of a service (those classified as tradable or nontradable) and the positive-sum growth in human capital through a case study of high-skill migration scenarios. The study focuses on the migration relationship between India and the United States--one of the world's largest high-skill flows. Further, the study is conducted at the sectoral level, including the information technology, medical services, and post-secondary education (academic) sectors. To gain a rich understanding of the migration relationships, the field research is based on 50 personal interviews and 512 survey responses of high-skilled immigrants and subject matter experts across the United States in the three sectors.271 pagesenCopyright 2013 Theodore DavisPublic policyBrain drainCircular migrationHigh-skill migrationImmigrationIndiaTransnational communitiesDissertation