Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments ?

Volker Grossmann and David Stadelmann

No 413, FSES Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Freiburg/Fribourg Switzerland

Abstract: This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where individuals decide on education and subsequent emigration. Migration decisions are based on differences in net income across jurisdictions which endogenously may occur. The interaction between income differences and migration flows gives rise to the potential of multiple equilibria: a symmetric equilibrium without migration and an asymmetric equilibrium in which net income levels differ among jurisdictions and trigger migration flows. In the former equilibrium, all jurisdictions have the same public investment level. In the latter one, public investment is high in host economies of skilled expatriates and low in source economies. We empirically test the hypothesis that emigration rates are negatively associated with various kinds of publicly .nanced investment levels for OECD countries.

Keywords: High-skilled migration; Human capital externalities; Publicly financed investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2010-06-01
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Journal Article: Does High-skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments? (2012)
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