Endogenous Skill Formation and the Source Country Effects of International Labor Market Integration

Hartmut Egger (), Gabriel Felbermayr and Gabriel J. Felbermayr
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No 2018, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: With endogenous skills and given technology, labor market integration necessarily lowers welfare of the left-behind in a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the case of exogenous skill supply.

Keywords: labor market integration; migration; endogenous skill formation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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