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