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 J.
Institutions:	CESifo
Subject:	labor market integration \| migration \| endogenous skill formation

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CESifo Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 2018
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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