Social Status and Public Expectations: Self-Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

Konferenzbeitrag

We analyze public expectations about migrants' provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty's (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the migrants' choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate Germany's attested low attractiveness for high-skilled immigrants to its society's attitudes towards immigrants. We develop measures to increase Germany's attractiveness in the competition about talents.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2016: Demographischer Wandel - Session: Migrant Selection ; No. A22-V3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lumpe, Claudia ; Lumpe, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel und Hamburg
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/145685
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET