03820nam 22006015 450 991081703490332120230126212714.00-8047-9438-310.1515/9780804794381(CKB)3710000000364964(EBL)1977973(DE-B1597)563646(DE-B1597)9780804794381(MiAaPQ)EBC1977973(OCoLC)1178769813(EXLCZ)99371000000036496420200723h20202015 fg engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGlobal talent skilled labor as social capital in Korea /Gi-Wook Shin, Joon Nak ChoiStanford, CA :Stanford University Press,[2020]©20151 online resource (217 p.)Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research CenterDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-9349-2 Frontmatter --Contents --Figures, Maps, and Tables --Acknowledgments --One. Toward a New Model of Engaging Skilled Foreigners --Two. Foreign Students in Korea --Three. Korean Students Overseas --Four. The Korean Diaspora --Five. Expatriate Indians and Korean Engineering --Six. Toward a Global Korea --Notes --Bibliography --IndexGlobal 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 "global war for talent" and "brain drain" metaphors. The book empirically demonstrates its thesis by examination of the case of Korea: a state archetypical of those that have been embracing economic globalization while facing a demographic crisis—and one where the dominant narrative on the recruitment of skilled foreigners is largely negative. It reveals the unique benefits that foreign students and professionals can provide to Korea, by enhancing Korean firms' competitiveness in the global marketplace and by generating new jobs for Korean citizens rather than taking them away. As this research and its key findings are relevant to other advanced societies that seek to utilize skilled foreigners for economic development, the arguments made in this book offer insights that extend well beyond the Korean experience.Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein AsiForeign workers -- Korea (South)Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Korea (South)Human capital -- Korea (South)Skilled labor -- Korea (South)Social capital (Sociology) -- Korea (South)Transnationalism -- Economic aspects -- Korea (South)Foreign workers -- Korea (South).Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Korea (South).Human capital -- Korea (South).Skilled labor -- Korea (South).Social capital (Sociology) -- Korea (South).Transnationalism -- Economic aspects -- Korea (South).331.6/2095195Shin Gi-Wookauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut929772Choi Joon Nakauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910817034903321Global talent3968693UNINA