Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence
BP2-STS
- Grossmann, Volker ORCID University of Fribourg, CESifo, IZA
- Stadelmann, David ORCID University of Fribourg, CREMA
- 2013
Published in:
- The World Bank Economic Review. - 2013, vol. 27, no. 2, p. 297-319
English
The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers increases in host countries and decreases in source countries. We exploit data on international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence consistent with this theoretical hypothesis. We propose various instrumentation strategies to identify the causal effect of skilled migration on log differences of GDP per capita, total factor productivity, and the wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These strategies aim to address the endogeneity problem that arises when international wage differences affect migration decisions.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département d'économie politique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- License
- License undefined
- Open access status
- green
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- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/322930
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