Education, unemployment and migration

Eggert, Wolfgang; Krieger, Tim; Meier, Volker

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.01.005

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“…Immigrant flows have been found to be correlated with regional disparities on economic performance and labour market conditions, as stated by Pissarides and Wadsworth (1989) and Blanchard and Katz (1992). However, the effect depends heavily upon the endowments (both human and physical capitals) of the incoming population: If high, demand for qualified workforce is likely to increase, as net investment rates and aggregate productivity will also tend to rise, as in Eggert et al (2010) and Moretti (2012). If low, however, new inhabitants will enter low skilled unemployment lines, as demand for this type of labour might not increase as fast as supply does (Walden, 2012).…”

Section: Migrationmentioning

confidence: 97%

An Exploratory Analysis of Heterogeneity on Regional Labour Markets and Unemployment Rates in Colombia: An MFACT approach

Cárdenas-Hurtado¹,

Hernández-Montes²,

Torres-Gorron³

2014

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In this paper we study the structural determinants of differentials in unemployment rates and labour markets' performance for colombian cities. Following the framework proposed by Elhorst (2003) and using cross-sectional data for 23 metropolitan areas, we apply an extension of a principal axes method proposed by Bécue-Bertaut and Pagès (2004, 2008), Multiple Factor Analysis for Multiple Contingency Tables (MFACT), in order to establish unobserved factors that are relevant when disentangling the heterogeneity captured by groups of variables that are considered to explain regional unemployment differentials. Our findings suggest that differences on qualified labour supply levels, participation incentives and age structure are important to understand regional heterogeneity on labour markets and unemployment rates. In addition, we find that cities that display high unemployment rates do not necessarily share the same characteristics, that is, frictions that originate unemployment are not the same across colombian cities.

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Section: Migrationmentioning

confidence: 97%

An Exploratory Analysis of Heterogeneity on Regional Labour Markets and Unemployment Rates in Colombia: An MFACT approach

Cárdenas-Hurtado¹,

Hernández-Montes²,

Torres-Gorron³

2014

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“…Among many potential factors, higher expected income had been mainly recognized as one of the most important factors to attract human capital to a region. Skill-biased technological change and professional jobs have incentivized migration to the regions while yielding lower wages for unskilled workers in the same regions [26][27][28][29]. Providing appropriate local employment opportunities is crucial to retaining top quality graduates, although college graduates tend to stay in a region if those graduates were born or attended high school in the same state [29].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Education and R&D Investment on Regional Economic Growth

2017

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of education and R&D investment on regional economic growth in South Korea. We develop a simultaneous model of production, human capital accumulation, migration, population and physical capital investment of two regions: the Seoul Metropolitan Area and the rest of Korea. We decompose the regional growth path into a quality path and a quantity path to identify how regional economies grow and run simulations to evaluate alternative policies in terms of effectiveness and adaptability. The impact of education and R&D investment on regional growth in the rest of Korea is only 22.3% of that in the Seoul Metropolitan Area due to lower elasticity values of young in-migrants with respect to the investment in the rest of Korea. An enhanced efficiency of regional human capital accumulation is effective and adaptable to alleviate regional economic disparity.

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“…Hence, they are hypothesised as having a higher probability of socio-economic integration leading to a lower hazard to return. However, they may have a lower likelihood of finding adequate employment abroad due to possible low interregional mobility of their skills and diplomas (Eggert, Krieger and Meier, 2010). Also, Borjas and Bratsberg (1996) argue that host countries are a type of magnet for the less educated.…”

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The probability of return conditional on migration duration: evidence from Kosovo

Kotorri

2017

South East European Journal of Economics and Business

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The aim of this paper is to conceptualise the migration duration decision within the expected utility maximisation framework, and from that to derive and estimate an empirical proposition. For this purpose, the conceptual framework in Kotorri (2015) is extended where households decide to return to the home country conditional on their migration duration. In the empirical analysis, the Cox proportional hazards model is employed. This analysis is the first to investigate migration duration based on a random sample stemming from the Kosovo census of population conducted in 2011. The findings suggest rather mixed support for the household approach. The hazard to return decreases with income but not nonlinearly. The results indicate that household return migration behaviour is influenced by demographic characteristics, psychic income, and political factors.

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Education, unemployment and migration

Cited by 44 publications

References 31 publications

An Exploratory Analysis of Heterogeneity on Regional Labour Markets and Unemployment Rates in Colombia: An MFACT approach

An Exploratory Analysis of Heterogeneity on Regional Labour Markets and Unemployment Rates in Colombia: An MFACT approach

The Impact of Education and R&D Investment on Regional Economic Growth

The probability of return conditional on migration duration: evidence from Kosovo

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