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dc.contributor.authorStark, Odeden
dc.contributor.authorByra, Lukaszen
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30-
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-17T12:20:08Z-
dc.date.available2012-04-17T12:20:08Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-61083en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/57100-
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that even without the departure of skilled workers, the home country suffers reduced aggregate skill formation. Although as a response to a higher wage rate per unit of human capital in the new equilibrium skilled workers choose to accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled workers in the home country's workforce fall. The combined effect is a decrease in the average level of human capital in the home country.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences |cTübingenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aUniversity of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance |x31en
dc.subject.jelF22en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelO15en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordMigration of unskilled workersen
dc.subject.keywordHuman capital formationen
dc.subject.keywordDepletion of human capitalen
dc.subject.stwInternationale Wanderungen
dc.subject.stwUngelernte Arbeitskräfteen
dc.subject.stwBevölkerungen
dc.subject.stwBildungsinvestitionen
dc.subject.stwHumankapitalen
dc.subject.stwBrain Drainen
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleA back-door brain drain-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn689522533en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:tuewef:31en

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