Arbeitspapier
A back-door brain drain
In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that even without the departure of skilled workers, the home country suffers reduced aggregate skill formation. Although as a response to a higher wage rate per unit of human capital in the new equilibrium skilled workers choose to accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled workers in the home country's workforce fall. The combined effect is a decrease in the average level of human capital in the home country.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 31
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Subject
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Migration of unskilled workers
Human capital formation
Depletion of human capital
Internationale Wanderung
Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte
Bevölkerung
Bildungsinvestition
Humankapital
Brain Drain
Theorie
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Stark, Oded
Byra, Lukasz
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
- (where)
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Tübingen
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-61083
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Stark, Oded
- Byra, Lukasz
- University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Time of origin
- 2012
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