Egger, Hartmut; Felbermayr, Gabriel - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009) 6, pp. 706-729
labor emigration from developing countries. We show that for given technologies, labor market integration necessarily lowers … GDP per capita in a poor source country of emigration, because it distorts the education decision of individuals. As … pointed out by our analysis, a negative source country effect also materializes if all agents face identical emigration …