Institutional Development: Skill Transference Through a Reversal of “Human Capital Flight” or Technical Assistance
July 1, 1997
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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
Pages:
22
Volume:
1997
DOI:
Issue:
089
Series:
Working Paper No. 1997/089
Stock No:
WPIEA0891997
ISBN:
9781451952384
ISSN:
1018-5941
