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Labor Economics

Singapore Management University

2007

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How Much Should Foreign Talent Be Paid?, Manoj Thulasidas Jul 2007

How Much Should Foreign Talent Be Paid?, Manoj Thulasidas

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Singapore needs foreign talent — and there’s no need to feel bad about it. It is a statistical fact of life. For every top Singaporean in any field — be it science, medicine, finance, sports or whatever — we will find about 500 professionals of equal calibre in China and India. Not because we are 500 times less talented, just that they have 500 times more people.