Institutional Development: Skill Transference Through a Reversal of “Human Capital Flight” or Technical Assistance

International Monetary Fund

No 1997/089, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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 labor 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.

Keywords: WP; wages; international migration; brain drain; institutions; Ruralian labor; resource trade-off; Urbanian wage; Ruralian worker; quality Urbanian labor; Ruralian resident; brain drain repatriation program; Wage policy; Human capital; Labor force; Africa; Asia and Pacific (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1997-07-01
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