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Endogenous Skill Formation and the Source Country Effects of International Labor Market Integration

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Hartmut Egger ()
Gabriel J. Felbermayr ()

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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.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number CESifo Working Paper No. 2018.

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Keywords: labor market integration; migration; endogenous skill formation;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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  1. Michel, BEINE & FrŽdŽric, DOCQUIER & Hillel, RAPOPORT, 2006. "Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers," Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) 2006023, Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Eckhard Janeba, 2003. "Does Trade Increase Inequality when Skills are Endogenous?," Review of International Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 11(5), pages 885-898, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Beine, Michel & Docquier, Frederic & Rapoport, Hillel, 2001. "Brain drain and economic growth: theory and evidence," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(1), pages 275-289, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Findlay, Ronald & Kierzkowski, Henryk, 1983. "International Trade and Human Capital: A Simple General Equilibrium Model," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 91(6), pages 957-78, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Hartmut Egger & Josef Falkinger & Volker Grossmann, 2007. "Brain Drain, Fiscal Competition, and Public Education Expenditure," IZA Discussion Papers 2747, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  6. Deininger, Klaus & Squire, Lyn, 1996. "A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality," World Bank Economic Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 10(3), pages 565-91, September.
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  1. Hartmut Egger & Gabriel J Felbermayr, 2009. "Endogenous Skill Formation and the Source Country Effects of Emigration," Diskussionspapiere aus dem Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Hohenheim 308/2009, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  2. Simone Bertoli & Herbert Brücker, 2008. "Extending the case for a beneficial brain drain," Working Papers Series wp2008_14.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche. [Downloadable!]
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