Migration, human capital accumulation and economic development

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Di Maria, Corrado; Stryszowski, Piotr
• 署名单位: University College Dublin; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.06.008
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 306-313
• 关键词: education; migration; human capital; Economic growth

摘要

We study how the possibility of migration changes the composition of human capital in sending countries, and how this affects development. In our model, growth is driven by productivity growth, which occurs via imitation or innovation. Both activities use the same types of skilled labour as input, albeit with different intensities. Heterogenous agents accumulate skills in response to economic incentives. Migration distorts these incentives, and the accumulation of human capital. This slows down, or even hinders, economic development. The effect is stronger, the farther away the country is from the technological frontier. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.