Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121084 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 89
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a change in skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that, depending on the elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers and the elasticity of the matching function, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce the relative unemployment rate of skilled workers and decrease the relative emigration rate of skilled workers (brain drain). We provide empirical estimates and simulations to support our findings and show that effects are empirically relevant and potentially sizeable.
Subjects: 
Directed Technological Change
Skill Premia
Unemployment
Brain Drain
JEL: 
F22
J61
J64
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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