Mobility and migration of researchers – a study based on the Italian public research system.

In the last decades, in some countries - such as Italy - the migration of highly skilled personnel, scientists and researchers present strong one-way flows. In this work we analysed the phenomenon not only form a quantitative point of view, but we also explored the qualitative variables involved. The result presented in this work allows us to stress that conducting an investigation in the researchers' mobility field of study, based only on quantitative analysis, is not sufficient, even, if necessary, to have a complete overview of the problem.