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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 89

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

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fadinger, Harald
Mayr, Karin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
FIW - Research Centre International Economics
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2012

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

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

Entstanden

  • 2012

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