Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Leonid Azarnert

DEGIT Conference Papers from DEGIT, Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade

Abstract: This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country, the actual number of educated workers in the source economy decreases, and the aggregate level of human capital in this economy would thus be negatively affected.

Keywords: Migration; Human Capital; Fertility; Brain Drain; Economic Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F43 J13 J24 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2011-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-dev, nep-hrm, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Journal Article: Guest‐worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility (2012)
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