 IT Career aspirations in Bangladesh: a Trigger for development?Tsuyoshi Kano, Abdul Matin Sheikh and Kentaro Toyama Information Technology for Development, 2021, vol. 27, issue 2, 336-360 Abstract: Saxenian’s concept of ‘brain circulation’ explains how a developing country can benefit when its diaspora community returns home to accelerate economic growth, but it says little about who leaves a country in the first place, and why they leave. We consider this issue in the context of Bangladesh’s IT sector and focus on university students’ aspirations for careers abroad. Based on a survey of 591 undergraduate IT students, we find that students’ aspirations bifurcate into those hoping to work in English-speaking developed countries and those expecting to remain in Bangladesh, and that the difference correlates with parental income, attendance at elite universities, gender, and the presence of role models. We also find that parental income is predictive of what factors students value in a job. Findings are discussed in relation to socio-cognitive career theory, with implications for interventions that could improve IT brain circulation in Bangladesh and beyond. Date: 2021 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:27:y:2021:i:2:p:336-360 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2021.1885332 Access Statistics for this article Information Technology for Development is currently edited by Sajda Qureshi More articles in Information Technology for Development from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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