International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Oded Stark and Agnieszka Dorn

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 3, 411-414

Abstract: In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save.

Keywords: Human capital formation; Savings; Intertemporal choice; Prospect of migrating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 F22 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.032

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