Institutional Development: Skill Transference Through a Reversal of “Human Capital Flight” or Technical Assistance

July 1, 1997

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Institutional Development: Skill Transference Through a Reversal of “Human Capital Flight” or Technical Assistance, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 20, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a return of skills that might have been lost in migration. We show that, even in the simplest setting with imperfect information, a surprisingly rich menu of responses is obtained.

Subject: Human capital, Labor, Labor force, Wage policy, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Brain drain, Brain drain repatriation program, Human capital, Institutions, International migration, Labor force, Quality Urbanian labor, Resource trade-off, Ruralian labor, Ruralian resident, Ruralian worker, Urbanian wage, Wage policy, Wages, WP

Publication Details

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22
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Working Paper No. 1997/089
Stock No:

WPIEA0891997
ISBN:

9781451952384
ISSN:

1018-5941

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