Brain drain or brain gain? Technology diffusion and learning on-the-job.

Autor/in	Sampson, Thomas
Institution	Centre for Economic Performance
Titel	Brain drain or brain gain? Technology diffusion and learning on-the-job.
Quelle	London (2012), 45 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CEP discussion paper. 1168
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	2042-2695
Schlagwörter	Diffusion; Innovation; Mobilität; Technologietransfer; Führungskraft; Humankapital; Wissenstransfer; Technologietransfer; Technologische Entwicklung; Diffusion; Entwicklungsland; Industriestaat; Mobilität; Nord-Süd-Beziehung; Humankapital; Produktivitätsentwicklung; Qualifikationsvermittlung; Brain Drain; Innovation; Führungskraft
Abstract	This paper develops a theory of technology transfer when technology is embodied in human capital and learning requires on-the-job communication between managers and workers. Patterns of knowledge diffusion depend on where high knowledge managers work and how much time they allocate to training workers. Managers appropriate the surplus training creates and in the open economy managers face a cross-country trade-off between labor costs and the value of knowledge transfer. Complementarity between country-wide efficiency and managerial knowledge makes learning more valuable in the North meaning that high knowledge managers choose to work in the North and globalization precipitates a brain drain of high knowledge Southern agents to the North. The brain drain reduces learning opportunities in the South and exacerbates cross-country knowledge differences. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/1