International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Oded Stark and Agnieszka Dorn

No 49, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics from University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics

Abstract: In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save.

Keywords: Human capital formation; Savings; Intertemporal choice; Prospect of migrating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 F22 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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