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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 89
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Subject
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Directed Technological Change
Skill Premia
Unemployment
Brain Drain
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fadinger, Harald
Mayr, Karin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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FIW - Research Centre International Economics
- (where)
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Vienna
- (when)
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Fadinger, Harald
- Mayr, Karin
- FIW - Research Centre International Economics
Time of origin
- 2012