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

Oded Stark; Christian Helmenstein; Alexia Prskawetz

doi:10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00125-6

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

Oded Stark^*, Christian Helmenstein, Alexia Prskawetz

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Abstract

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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	363-367
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	60
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(98)00125-6
State	Published - 1 Sep 1998
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

F22
Human capital formation
J24
Migration

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

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