Migration, human capital accumulation and economic development

Corrado Di Maria and Piotr Stryszowski ()

Journal of Development Economics, 2009, vol. 90, issue 2, 306-313

Abstract: We study how the possibility of migration changes the composition of human capital in sending countries, and how this affects development. In our model, growth is driven by productivity growth, which occurs via imitation or innovation. Both activities use the same types of skilled labour as input, albeit with different intensities. Heterogenous agents accumulate skills in response to economic incentives. Migration distorts these incentives, and the accumulation of human capital. This slows down, or even hinders, economic development. The effect is stronger, the farther away the country is from the technological frontier.

Keywords: Education; Migration; Human; capital; Economic; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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