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: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 164
- 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
Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte
Internationale Wanderung
Bildungsinvestition
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 Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2012
- DOI
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doi:10.22004/ag.econ.122433
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Stark, Oded
- Byra, Lukasz
- University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Time of origin
- 2012
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