Global Talent :: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea /

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...

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Main Authors: Shin, Gi-Wook (Author), Choi, Joon Nak, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Series:Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 exam
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804794381
0804794383
9780804793490
0804793492
9780804794336
0804794332

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