TEMPORARY EMIGRATION AND WELFARE: THE CASE OF LOW‐SKILLED LABOR

Slobodan Djajić

International Economic Review, 2014, vol. 55, issue 2, 551-574

Abstract: This article studies the implications of temporary emigration for the welfare of a source country. The framework is one of general equilibrium, where the economy's stocks of both capital and labor are endogenously determined by the saving and migration decisions of optimizing agents. Simulations of the model suggest that for realistic values of the parameters, welfare of nonmigrants of the source country is maximized when the migrants are employed abroad for a period in the range of roughly 8–12 years. The ideal duration is found to be an increasing function of the international wage differential, migration costs, and the degree to which the rights of migrants are protected in the host country.

Date: 2014
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