Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth

Max Tani

No 1934, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows. Gross flows however capture the volume of interactions and knowledge exchanges between workers living in different countries, which in turn affect the stock of knowledge available to their places of residences, and hence their ability to innovate and grow. A simulation based on available US, British and Australian data on international business visits reveals that short-term skilled labour movements have a positive and not insignificant effect on growth.

Keywords: economic growth; international migration; temporary labour movements; skilled labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2006-01
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Published - published as 'Short-Term Skilled Labour Movements and Economic Growth' in: International Migration, 2008, 46 (3), 161-187

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