Been away for a while, working on MSc assignments. But I have some great news to share. As part of a recent Royal Economic Society Call for Submissions, I have committed to examining how cross-cultural attitudes have changed over the past 20 years or so regarding self-initiated and assigned expatriation from the United Kingdom (UK) to various foreign countries, particularly since the publication of Anne-Wil Harzing’s journal article on the complex nature of the topic.
My upcoming working paper presents a self-funded research study outlining why these attitudes have gradually changed since Harzing (2001), taking care to also measure such change across a specific time. The model will expand on the wage-level interpretation of Mayaki (2024), which analyzes a synthetic panel dataset of the 10 countries with the most net migration surpluses for expatriation, focusing on the O-1 visa route (or its equivalent) in areas where emigration has either impacted cross-cultural attitudes or rebalanced long-term wage effects.
Please do feel free to contribute a written work to the Royal Economic Society's call for submissions if you are an academic in my network. The deadline for submissions is October 15th, 2025.
Thank you!
References
Harzing, A. (2001) "Of bears, bumble-bees, and spiders: the role of expatriates in controlling foreign subsidiaries", Journal of World Business, 36(4), pp. 366-379. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-9516(01)00061-X