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INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: SKILL TRANSFERENCE THROUGH A REVERSAL OF ‘HUMAN CAPITAL FLIGHT’ OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Author(s) -
Ul Haque Nadeem,
Ali Khan M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2007.00336.x
Subject(s) - expatriate , repatriation , brain drain , imperfect , human capital , economics , perfect information , capital (architecture) , labour economics , economic growth , microeconomics , political science , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , history
. 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 labour 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.