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The Prospect of Migration, Sticky Wages, and 'Educated Unemployment'

Stark, Oded - 2011

An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of educated workers in the domestic labor market. Where there is a sticky...

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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999

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Overlapping

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002

We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...

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The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and educated unemployment

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2011

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A back-door brain drain

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2012

In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...

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On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say

Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; … - 2011

This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...

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Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem

Stark, Oded - 2010

in gastlandspezifisches Humankapital investieren, beziehen Asylbewerber die Einbürgerungswahrscheinlichkeit mit ein. Die … Regierung des Gastlandes wählt jene Einbürgerungswahrscheinlichkeit, die am meisten zum Erwerb von Humankapital ermutigt …. Humankapital steigert wiederum die Produktivität und die Einkünfte eines Asylbewerbers und maximiert folglich die Steuereinnahmen …

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Endogenous selection of comparison groups, human capital formation, and tax policy

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Wang, Yong - 2011

This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...

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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare

Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011

This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: engineering, which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and law, which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of migration...

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International migration and educated unemployment

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2006

This paper provides a novel explanation of educated unemployment, which is a salient feature of the labor markets in a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that educated unemployment is caused by the perspective of international migration, that is, by the...

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