International migration and human capital formation

Mohamed Jellal and François-Charles Wolff
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Mohamed Jellal: UM5 - Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal]

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Abstract: We consider a model of international migration with heterogeneity in the skill level of workers which accounts for country−specific educational investment, unemployment expectations and return to the origin country. We prove that migrants invest less than natives in human capital formation because of return migration, so that migrants are more likely to be unemployed and to have flatter earnings profiles. We would like to thank two anonymous referees for helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies.

Date: 2003
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Published in Economics Bulletin, 2003

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