Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of international labor market integration

With endogenous skills and given technology, labor market integration necessarily lowers welfare of the left-behind in a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the case of exogenous skill supply.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Egger, Hartmut ; Felbermayr, Gabriel
Publisher:	Munich : Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Subject:	Brain Drain \| Bildungsverhalten \| Bildungsinvestition \| Internationale Arbeitsmobilität \| Arbeitsmarkt \| Marktintegration \| Theorie

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Series:	CESifo Working Paper ; 2018
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	538297719 [GVK] hdl:10419/26063 [Handle]
Classification:	F22 - International Migration ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Source:	EconStor

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