Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62412 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6611
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence which is consistent with this hypothesis. We propose different instrumentation strategies to identify the causal effect of skilled migration on log differences of GDP per capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These address the endogeneity problem which potentially arises when international wage differences affect migration decisions.
Subjects: 
international high-skilled migration
wage effects
total factor productivity
JEL: 
F22
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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