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Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of international labor market integration

With endogenous skills and given technology, labor market integration necessarily lowers welfare of the left-behind in a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the case of exogenous skill supply.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2018

Classification
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Subject
Brain Drain
Bildungsverhalten
Bildungsinvestition
Internationale Arbeitsmobilität
Arbeitsmarkt
Marktintegration
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Egger, Hartmut
Felbermayr, Gabriel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2007

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Egger, Hartmut
  • Felbermayr, Gabriel
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2007

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