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The International Mobility of Talent: Types, Causes, and Development Impact

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The International Mobility of Talent brings together the best research in this critically important subject, identifying the roles of creativity, knowledge, ideas, and skills that go beyond trade and capital as the movers of economic development.

—Richard Florida, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, author of The Rise of the Creative Class.

Andrés Solimano has skilfully edited the contributions of many experts to present a comprehensive analysis of one of the least examined dimensions of globalization. This important work examines the international mobility of talented individuals and the way that they disseminate ideas as they move from country to country, which in turn impact on economies in both the developed and the developing world.

—David Parrish, International Management Consultant and Trainer: davidparrish.com

This is the highest talent writing about the mobility of talent, now a subject central to development. This book deserves a warm welcome.

—Alice H. Amsden, Barton L. Weller Professor of Political Economy, MIT

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Series:
UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics
Title:
The International Mobility of Talent: Types, Causes, and Development Impact
Authors:
Edited by Andrés Solimano
Publication date:
February 2008
ISBN 13 Print:
9780199532605
Copyright holder:
© UNU-WIDER
Copyright year:
2008
Keywords:
international mobility, global economics, industrial economy, globalization, migration, brain drain, brain gain
JEL:
O15, F20, N30
Project:
International Mobility of Talent
Format:
hardback book
 
Endorsements for this volume
 
Globalization has many faces but it essentially refers to the movements of goods, capital (real or financial), and people (skilled or unskilled).To an increasing extent, it refers to growing contacts among people. These movements and contacts bring with them exchanges of ideas and techniques that can promote welfare. The international mobility of talent is both a cause and a consequence of globalization. In the modern world clever and mobile individuals often use their talent and their skills in places or countries other than those where they were born. Because of what used to be called the brain drain, poorer countries lose their most talented individuals to richer countries where they can earn higher incomes or operate in the company of equally skilled individuals. However in recent years there have been cases where the talent-exporting countries have been able to attract back their talented sons or daughters or to benefit in other ways. Thus, the trade in talent has become more complex and less of a one way street that had appeared to be in the past. This interesting book brings the knowledge and sophistication of first rate economists to the analysis of the globalization of talent and assesses its various and not always obvious consequences. It will help us to better understand this complex and topical phenomenon. It will become an essential reference in this important and new branch of economics. —Vito Tanzi, former director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF, and an Undersecretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government
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