The role of skilled migrant workers in FDI-related technology transfer

2019 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Golob Šušteršič ◽  
Katja Zajc Kejžar
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Skilled Migrant

High-Skilled Migration

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Over the past decades an increasing number of countries have developed a growing interest in attracting and retaining skilled and highly skilled migrant workers. This chapter provides an introduction into the nature and dynamics of the global skill market and the role of states and state policies in international migration processes of highly skilled workers. This introduction also outlines the subsequent chapters of this volume which address questions regarding (i) the nature and scope of high-skilled migration and ‘immigration policy packages’ states implement to attract and select high-skilled migrants; (ii) the rationales and determinants of high-skilled migration policies evolving over time and space; (iii) the extent to which policies and other drivers affect high-skilled migration processes in general, and international migration of students, scientists, and health professionals in particular.

scholarly journals Organizational culture and cultural diversity: an explorative study of international skilled migrants in Swedish firms

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Farashah ◽  
Tomas Blomqusit
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Diversity Strategy ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Skilled Migrant

PurposeThis paper empirically explores the types and extent of cultural diversity strategies in Sweden, a developed economy with many migrant workers. The role of organizational culture as the context and the association with diversity strategy and the selection of international skilled migrant workers are examined.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical data are collected by surveying 249 Swedish large or medium-sized firms. Cluster analysis is used to explore the configuration of organizational culture, cultural diversity strategy (CDS) and selection and development criteria.FindingsThe authors identify five clusters of organizations. Organizational culture is the main contextual factor that influences the CDS and human resource (HR) approaches for selecting skilled migrant workers. The profile of the clusters including organizational culture, diversity strategies, the selection criteria and firm demographics is presented. The empirical results indicate that organizational culture and demographics are associated with the choice of diversity strategy and, consequently, HR processes.Originality/valueThis study's main focus is on international skilled migrants, which is among empirically less-studied areas in global mobility literature. Furthermore, until now more attention has been directed toward studying the consequences of diversity than toward understanding the factors that influence choice of diversity strategies and practices. This study focuses on antecedents of diversity and attempts to understand the factors that influence adoption and implementation of different cultural diversity strategies.

Employers, Recruiters, and Workers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Martin
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Foreign Earnings ◽  
Work Abroad ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Low-skilled migrant workers often pay high fees to work abroad, which reduces the remittances they can send to their families and is regressive because low-skilled workers pay more than high-skilled workers. No one knows exactly how much workers pay, justifying more data on this in order to reduce worker-paid costs. Media exposés of workers who paid a year’s foreign earnings to get a two-year contract may leave the impression that all workers pay such high fees, although the data collected from workers in diverse corridors do not support such a conclusion. Since the number of low-skilled workers often exceeds the number of jobs, worker willingness to pay can be a way of allocating scarce jobs among workers, although government efforts to limit what workers pay can drive payments underground.

The Role of Physicians During Hunger Strikes of Undocumented Migrant Workers in a Non-Custodial Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Vanobberghen ◽  
Fred Louckx ◽  
Anne-Marie Depoorter ◽  
Dirk Devroey ◽  
Jan Vandevoorde
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Undocumented Migrant

scholarly journals Technology transfer in innovation networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 184797901773574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Ferraro ◽  
Antonio Iovanella
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Network Science ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Science Approach

This article offers a network perspective on the collaborative effects of technology transfer, providing a research methodology based on the network science paradigm. We argue that such an approach is able to map and describe the set of entities acting in the technology transfer environment and their mutual relationships. We outline how the connections’ patterns shape the organization of the networks by showing the role of the members within the system. By means of a case study of a transnational initiative aiming to support the technology transfer within European countries, we analyse the application of the network science approach, giving evidence of its relative implications.

Transfer or Translation? Rethinking Traveling Technologies from the Global South

2022 ◽  
pp. 016224392110722
Author(s):  
Miao Lu ◽  
Jack Linchuan Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
Narrow Focus ◽  
New Space ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Human Actors

Technology flows are becoming increasingly diverse in the twenty-first century, calling for an update of concepts and frameworks. Reflecting on the inherent tensions of technology transfer, including its technocratic dreams, insensitivity to technological materiality, and narrow focus on certain human actors, we propose technology translation as a complementary conceptual framework to understand traveling technologies. Taking a socio-technical approach, technology translation views artifacts as socially shaped with distributed agency, which makes technology flows unstable and unpredictable. In so doing, we develop a typology to explain five technology flow scenarios, shedding new light on the mechanisms of technology traveling by foregrounding the role of translators. Last, we discuss the politics of translation and elaborate how technology translation opens new space to engage with the complexity and uncertainty of technology flows, especially in the Global South.

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