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Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea

  • Gi-Wook Shin
  • , Joon Nak Choi

Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

Abstract

Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi build on an emerging stream of research that conceptualizes global labor mobility as a positive-sum game in which countries and businesses benefit from building ties across geographic space, rather than the zero-sum game implied by the \
Original languageEnglish
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN (Print)9780804793490, 9780804794336
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2015

Publication series

NameGlobal Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea

Keywords

  • Global issues, Economy, and Work
  • Political Economy
  • Immigration
  • Asian Studies

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