Arbeitspapier

The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and 'educated unemployment'

An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of educated workers in the domestic labor market. Where there is a sticky wage-rate, the demand for labor at home will be constant. With a rising supply and constant demand, the rate of unemployment of educated workers in the domestic labor market will increase. Thus, the prospect of employment abroad causes involuntary 'educated unemployment' at home. A government that is concerned about 'educated unemployment' and might therefore be expected to encourage unemployed educated people to migrate will nevertheless, under certain conditions, elect to restrict the extent of the migration of educated individuals.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 9

Classification
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
International Migration
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Subject
The prospect of migration
Sticky wages
'Educated unemployment'
Government intervention

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fan, C. Simon
Stark, Oded
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
(where)
Tübingen
(when)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-56142
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Fan, C. Simon
  • Stark, Oded
  • University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Time of origin

  • 2011

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