Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility

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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country, the actual number of educated workers in the source economy decreases, and the aggregate level of human capital in this economy would thus be negatively affected.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3429

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Economic Growth of Open Economies ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: migration ; human capital ; fertility ; brain drain ; economic growth ; Ausländische Arbeitskräfte ; Internationale Arbeitsmobilität ; Bildungsinvestition ; Brain Drain ; Fruchtbarkeit ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Azarnert, Leonid V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46264
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET