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Migrant Remittances, Human Capital Formation and Job Creation Externalities in Colombia

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Maurice Kugler ()

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In this paper we model the e¤ect of migrant remittances on job creation and human capital formation, given migration prospects. Model calibration of deep parameters was performed with data from the AMCO survey on migration and remittances. The simulations based on the model show that remittances can have o¤setting e¤ects on equilibrium human capital and labor market out- comes in the country of origin of migrants. First, remittances enhance school- ing opportunities for recipient households, and human capital formation can be augmented. Second, an increase in human capital supply by recipient house- holds induces job creation as labor demand increases in the origin country. If a su¢ ciently large share of remittance recipients do not migrate, then the net e¤ect is brain gain rather than brain drain ensuing remittances. The job cre- ation spillover in local labor markets increases the rate of return to schooling for nonrecipient households, whose members are less likely to migrate. As a result, there are more incentives to substitute consumption for human capital investment. At the same time, the rise in expected income due to the spillover induces higher desired consumption. If the ‘substitution e¤ect’outweighs the ‘income e¤ect’, then remittances will increase overall human capital and re- duce the unemployment rate. The calibration and simulation analyses suggest that he net e¤ect of remittances depends upon the accessibility of education and the degree and labor market frictions in the origin country as well as the immigration policy in the destination country of migrants.

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