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Global Talent: Skilled Labor As Social Capital in Korea - Couverture souple

Livre 10 sur 22: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Shin, Gi-Wook; Choi, Joon Nak

 
9780804794336: Global Talent: Skilled Labor As Social Capital in Korea
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0804794332 ISBN 13 : 9780804794336
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gi-Wook Shin is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. Joon Nak Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804794332
ISBN 13 
9780804794336
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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Personne responsable
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