Japanese brain drain - Case study of Taiwan & Korea
The world has witnessed human resource flow as a driving force of economic development in many countries. Of the desire to upgrade their living standard in a better environment, migration is a key route to get rid of poverty. And the term “American dream” is referring to people who have strong aspirations to pursue a better opportunity for education and work with their commitment to hard-working. Indeed, the average male migrant can earn more than 5-6 times higher in the US compared to their home country. While many studies focus on the mobility from developing countries to developed ones in terms of income migration or education migration, there is little attention to the reverse phenomenon from developed countries to developing ones. Recruitment records illustrate that a number of Japanese high-skilled workers have been hired by Korean and Taiwanese companies, which partly contributed to the transfer of technological knowledge in the region.