Friday, September 05, 2014

Spain brain drain worst in western Europe, data show


Spain has been harder hit by the brain drain effect than many other countries in Western Europe as thousands of professionals, including nurses and teachers, have left the country in recent years, official data show.

According to the European Union’s statistics agency, Eurostat, only 6,558 foreign workers applied to work in regulated fields including education, medicine, nursing and law in Spain from 2003 to 2014.

Some 84 percent of these applications were accepted, meaning a net gain of 5,508 professionals .... http://www.presstv.ir