A back-door brain drain

Oded Stark and Łukasz Byra

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 3, 273-276

Abstract: The long run effect of migration solely by unskilled workers is that skilled workers in the home country acquire additional human capital yet their share in the country’s workforce falls. Consequently, the country’s average level of human capital is lowered.

Keywords: Migration of unskilled workers; Human capital formation; Depletion of human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.03.002

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