Differential labor mobility, agglomeration, and skill-biased migration policies

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The paper analyzes the impact of skill-biased migration policies under the economics of agglomeration. It therefore develops an agglomeration model with two types of mobile worker who are heterogeneous and differ both within and between skill groups with respect to their migration propensity. On the one hand, the model reveals that the effectiveness of migration policies depends on the level on trade costs. On the other hand, it shows that increasing (reducing) political barriers to migration for one factor of production, reduces (increases) the migration incentive of the other. Consequently, pro-skilled and contra-unskilled migration policies attenuate each other or can even be counterproductive.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: BGPE Discussion Paper ; No. 72

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Economic Integration ; International Migration ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: agglomeration ; labor mobility ; economic geography ; skill-biased migration policies Welfare

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Russek, Stephan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73442
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET