For some expats, finding a re-entry job that is aligned with career aspirations and takes advantage of new skills acquired abroad is the challenge.
For instance, a mismatch between skills acquired abroad and skills demanded by local employers (Sun, 2013) and a lack of cultural awareness and sensitivity may make returnees less attractive than non-migrants to potential employers in home countries, which could worsen employment outcomes for returnees.
Even when the migrants return to their home country, they bring in with them the benefits related to the skills acquired abroad and to the savings brought home by returnees with the purpose of undertaking entrepreneurial activities (Lianos and Pseiridis 2009).
There is no evidence that Kenyan health professionals working abroad ever return home after working for a few years to share the knowledge and skills acquired abroad.
Employers did not always recognise skills and education acquired abroad, especially outside Europe.
Ireland attracted back some of the departed, whose skills and networks acquired abroad fuelled the boom.
Undoubtedly, there is a little envy, but among those to whom Next Wave has spoken, there is also--more often than not--an admiration for the skills and knowledge these scientists have acquired abroad.
All patients with locally-acquired Shigella and 3 patients with Shigella infections acquired abroad were men.
First, human capital acquired abroad may not be entirely transferable to the host economy (Friedberg, 2000), possibly because immigrants have weak language skills that reduce their productivity (Bleakley and Chin, 2004).
Sailors on the other hand wore exotic and colorful designs acquired abroad.
Any reporting recent foreign travel were removed as the infection may have been acquired abroad.
