International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Oded Stark; Agnieszka Dorn

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.032

International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Oded Stark^*, Agnieszka Dorn

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the model of Stark etal. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	411-414
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.032
State	Published - Mar 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Human capital formation
Intertemporal choice
Prospect of migrating
Savings

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