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dc.contributor.authorKuhn, Peteren
dc.contributor.authorMcAusland, Carolen
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-22-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:32:56Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:32:56Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20080723139en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35046-
dc.description.abstractWe consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of goods designed by skilled emigrants but consumed in the sending country. In contrast to existing models of beneficial brain drain, our results do not require agglomeration economies, education-related externalities, remittances, return migration, or an emigration lottery. Instead, they are driven purely by differences in market size that induce skilled emigrants to design better products abroad than at home.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3602en
dc.subject.jelF22en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordBrain drainen
dc.subject.keywordinternational labor migrationen
dc.subject.keywordproduct qualityen
dc.subject.stwBrain Drainen
dc.subject.stwProduktdesignen
dc.subject.stwProduktqualitäten
dc.subject.stwImporten
dc.subject.stwKonsumtheorieen
dc.subject.stwWohlfahrtseffekten
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleConsumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn573773017en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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