Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: a blessing or a "curse"?

被引：117

作者：

Stark, O

Helmenstein, C

Prskawetz, A

机构：

[1] Univ Oslo, Dept Econ, N-0317 Oslo, Norway

[2] Univ Vienna, Vienna, Austria

[3] Inst Adv Studies, Vienna, Austria

[4] Austrian Acad Sci, A-1010 Vienna, Austria

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 1998年 / 60卷 / 03期

关键词：

human capital formation; migration;

D O I：

10.1016/S0165-1765(98)00125-6

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We specify conditions under which a strictly positive probability of employment in a foreign country raises the level of human capital formed by optimizing workers in the home country. While some workers migrate, "taking along" more human capital than if they had migrated without factoring in the possibility of migration (a form of brain drain), other workers stay at home with more human capital than they would have formed in the absence of the possibility of migration (a form of brain gain). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.

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