Back to the Future: How the Convergence of Globalization and Technology is Changing Labour and Mobility

Oltean Ovidiu () and Taylor Andrew
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Oltean Ovidiu: Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Political Science, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Minerilor Street 85, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Taylor Andrew: Transilvania Executive Education, Cluj Hub Regele Ferdinand Street 22-26 3rd Floor, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Social Change Review, 2023, vol. 20, issue 1, 19-44

Abstract: Throughout this research we reflect on how the convergence of technology and migration is changing highly skilled labour mobility and the relationship between place and value production. We reflect on the impact of these transformations on the tech sector and IT labour market in Cluj-Napoca. We aim to understand how the pandemic coupled with the current trends in labour mobility and value production have affected labour markets and highly skilled labour migration. The paper stems as reflection from a fieldwork which are currently conducting in Romania with a focus on transnational entrepreneurship, social networks of innovation and labour migration in the tech industry. The article brings forward findings from the field, drawing on the developments that accelerated and changed the way we work in the post-pandemic period and analysing what implications these trends could have on the nature of migration and the connection between value production and place.

Keywords: Return migration; Highly skilled labour migration; Technology; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2478/scr-2022-0003

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