International migration and "educated unemployment"

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This paper provides a novel explanation of 'educated unemployment,' which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that 'educated unemployment' is caused by the perspective of international migration, that is, by the possibility of a 'brain drain.' In addition, the analysis shows that a developing country may end up with more educated workers despite the brain drain and educated unemployment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CMR Working Papers ; No. 9/67

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: International migration ; Human capital formation ; "Educated unemployment" ; Beneficial brain drain ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Brain Drain ; Humankapital ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stark, Oded ; Fan, C. Simon
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Warsaw, Centre of Migration Research (CMR)
• (where): Warsaw
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/140793
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET