Integration, mobility, and human capital formation

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In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but immobile individuals to become skilled.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3190

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: human capital ; migration ; labour market integration ; agglomeration ; Humankapital ; Regionale Arbeitsmobilität ; Berufliche Integration ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Externer Effekt ; Bildungsinvestition ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Haupt, Alexander ; Uebelmesser, Silke
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46533
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET