Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of emigration

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Egger, Hartmut

Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of emigration

dc.contributor.author	Felbermayr, Gabriel	de
dc.contributor.author	Egger, Hartmut	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:42:15Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:42:15Z
dc.date.created	2009-03-23
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.abstract	In this paper we set up a simple theoretical framework to study the possible source country effects of skilled labor emigration. We show that for given technologies, labor market integration necessarily lowers GDP per capita in a poor source country of emigration, because it distorts the education decision of individuals. As pointed out by our analysis, a negative source country effect also materializes if all agents face identical emigration probabilities, irrespective of their education levels. This is in sharp contrast to the case of exogenous skill supply. Allowing for human capital spillovers, we further show that with social returns to schooling there may be a counteracting positive source country effect if the prospect of emigration stimulates the incentives to acquire education. Since, in general, the source country effects are not clear, we calibrate our model for four major source countries { Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, and the Philippines { and show that an increase in emigration rates beyond those observed in the year 2000 is very likely to lower GDP per capita in poor economies.	en
dc.identifier.swb	305038796
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5240
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-3504
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheimer Diskussionsbeiträge; 308
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dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Facharbeiter	de
dc.subject.gnd	Auswanderung	de
dc.title	Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of emigration	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
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local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Felbermayr2009, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5240}, author = {Felbermayr, Gabriel and Egger, Hartmut}, title = {Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of emigration}, year = {2009}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheimer Diskussionsbeiträge}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Felbermayr, Gabriel and Egger, Hartmut
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local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520alt	de
local.opus.number	350
local.series.issueNumber	308
local.series.title	Hohenheimer Diskussionsbeiträge
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (bis 2010)	de

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