This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising three contributions on developing country taxation of brain drain, extent of migrant workers and relationships to a new international economic order - reviews various initiatives and resolutions made by Yugoslavia and UNCTAD, as well as UN Resolutions to...

A paradox in knowledge management paradigms is posed: that leading to a dichotomy between factor-endowment and factor-use in the health sector of any given country. While investment in acquiring health knowledge embodied in overseas health workers from other countries could lead to better health...

The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...

The brain drain has long been viewed as a serious constraint on poor countries development. However, recent theoretical literature suggests that emigration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and foster investment in education at home. This paper takes advantage of a new...

This paper examines how innovation offshoring through global innovation networks affects Industrial Upgrading (IU) policies in Asia's electronics industry. I argue that developing countries cannot build their innovative capabilities by solely relying on their national innovation systems. For...

Purpose – Skilled migrant workers move relatively in unidirectional form (from developing to developed countries) in response to many factors. The purpose of this paper is to examine some factors that influence skilled migration to such preferred locations among skilled workers....