Arbeitspapier

Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and brain drain

We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a change in skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that, depending on the elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers and the elasticity of the matching function, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce the relative unemployment rate of skilled workers and decrease the relative emigration rate of skilled workers (brain drain). We provide empirical estimates and simulations to support our findings and show that effects are empirically relevant and potentially sizeable.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 89

Classification
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Subject
Directed Technological Change
Skill Premia
Unemployment
Brain Drain

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fadinger, Harald
Mayr, Karin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
FIW - Research Centre International Economics
(where)
Vienna
(when)
2012

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Fadinger, Harald
  • Mayr, Karin
  • FIW - Research Centre International Economics

Time of origin

  • 2012

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