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