Global Talent: Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea

by Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Choi

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804794332
• ISBN13: 9780804794336
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.8"