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The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and "educated unemployment"

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 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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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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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Stark, Oded; Agnieszka Dorn - 2013

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. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...

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How admitting migrants with any skills can help overcome a shortage of workers with particular skills

Stark, Oded; Byra, Łukasz - 2018

A country that experiences a shortage of workers with particular skills naturally considers two responses: import skills or produce them. Skill import may result in large-scale migration, which will not be to the liking of the natives. Skill production will require financial incentives, which...

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A critical comparison of migration policies : entry fee versus quota

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Casarico, Alessandra; … - 2017

We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country's workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We compare these two policies under the assumptions that individuals are...

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Migration and dynamics : how a leakage of human capital lubricates the engine of economic growth

Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2013

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...

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Socially gainful gender quotas

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women...

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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling

Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2021

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...

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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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