TY - JOUR
T1 - International labour migration under alternative informational regimes
T2 - A diagrammatic analysis
AU - Katz, Eliakim
AU - Stark, Oded
PY - 1989/1
Y1 - 1989/1
N2 - International migration under asymmetric information usually diners from international migration under symmetric information. In this paper we show that when at the lowest skill level migration is desirable, the introduction of asymmetric information results in a reduction of the quality and quantity of international migration or has no effect at all. When at the lowest skill level migration is not desirable, the introduction of asymmetric information may either result in migration by all or by none. Allowing employers to discover, after a while, the true productivity of individual migrant workers, we obtain the somewhat surprising result that (under a reasonable set of assumptions), eventual discovery may increase the quantity and quality of migration and also increase the wage enjoyed by the low quality migrants.
AB - International migration under asymmetric information usually diners from international migration under symmetric information. In this paper we show that when at the lowest skill level migration is desirable, the introduction of asymmetric information results in a reduction of the quality and quantity of international migration or has no effect at all. When at the lowest skill level migration is not desirable, the introduction of asymmetric information may either result in migration by all or by none. Allowing employers to discover, after a while, the true productivity of individual migrant workers, we obtain the somewhat surprising result that (under a reasonable set of assumptions), eventual discovery may increase the quantity and quality of migration and also increase the wage enjoyed by the low quality migrants.
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U2 - 10.1016/0014-2921(89)90041-X
DO - 10.1016/0014-2921(89)90041-X
M3 - מאמר
AN - SCOPUS:0344103848
VL - 33
SP - 127
EP - 142
JO - European Economic Review
JF - European Economic Review
SN - 0014-2921
IS - 1
ER -