Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners
beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social
capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges
between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi
build on an emerging stream of research that conceptualizes global
labor mobility as a positive-sum game in which countries and
businesses benefit from building ties across geographic space,
rather than the zero-sum game implied by the "global war for
talent" and "brain drain" metaphors. The book empirically
demonstrates its thesis by examination of the case of Korea: a
state archetypical of those that have been embracing economic
globalization while facing a demographic crisis-and one where the
dominant narrative on the recruitment of skilled foreigners is
largely negative. It reveals the unique benefits that foreign
students and professionals can provide to Korea, by enhancing
Korean firms' competitiveness in the global marketplace and by
generating new jobs for Korean citizens rather than taking them
away. As this research and its key findings are relevant to other
advanced societies that seek to utilize skilled foreigners for
economic development, the arguments made in this book offer
insights that extend well beyond the Korean experience.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center |
Release date: |
March 2015 |
First published: |
2015 |
Authors: |
Gi-Wook Shin
• Joon Nak Choi
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
|
Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-9349-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Economics >
Labour economics >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8047-9349-2 |
Barcode: |
9780804793490 |
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