Brexit raised the question of whether the UK will continue to attract internationals. Here the focus is on academic staff – a critical component of the “War for Talents” discourse and current geopolitics in the field. Despite a clear trend of loss of EU internationals, at least among western EU countries, the UK more than compensates for this fall with extra-EU internationals. This is even more evident among younger generations. However, the most notable effect, also having a long-term impact as far as it deals with newer generations, is about average quality of such talents (in this study: salaries at parity of age). Brexit is reducing the capacity to attract/retain the best academics. This happens especially among younger cohorts, and if they come from countries that perform better in GDP per capita, R&D investment, but also national ranking in tolerance and creative class scores. Overall, Brexit is detrimental to the UK in relation to attraction of talents, cutting through a long-term pattern of success.

英国脱欧引发了英国是否会继续吸引国际人士的问题。这里的重点是学术人员——“人才战争”话语和该领域当前地缘政治的重要组成部分。尽管欧盟国脚流失的趋势很明显，至少在西欧国家中是这样，但英国用欧盟外国脚弥补了这一下降。这一点在年轻一代中表现得更为明显。然而，最显着的影响是此类人才的平均素质（在本研究中：同龄工资），这对新一代也具有长期影响。英国脱欧正在降低吸引/留住最优秀学者的能力。这种情况尤其发生在年轻群体中，如果他们来自在人均国内生产总值、研发投资、宽容度和创意阶层得分方面表现更好的国家。总体而言，脱欧对英国吸引人才不利，破坏了英国的长期成功模式。