Romantische Metamorphosen

Kremer, Detlef

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-03473-1

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“…Furthermore, even once a critical mass has been achieved, skilled workers may provide knowledge spillovers to their skilled colleagues, or confer externalities on others in the population. 2 If the beneficial effects of such skilled workers accrue principally to the host economy, these considerations suggest that an economy should encourage skilled immigration and discourage skilled emigration. 3 The skill mix of migration could also influence economic institutions.…”

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Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants

Hunt¹

2004

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I examine the determinants of interstate migration of adults within western Germany, using the German SocioEconomic Panel from 1984-2000. I highlight the prevalence and distinctive characteristics of migrants who do not change employers. Same-employer migrants represent one fifth of all migrants, and have higher education and pre-move wages than non-migrants. Conditional on age, same-employer migrants are therefore more skilled than non-migrants. By contrast, although other migrants have higher education than non-migrants, they do not have higher pre-move wages. Furthermore, they have in their ranks disproportionate numbers of the non-employed, unemployed and recently laid off. It therefore seems inappropriate to characterize them as more skilled than nonmigrants. The results for same-employer migrants indicate that skilled workers have a low-cost migration avenue that has not been considered in the previous literature. I also analyze the relation between repeat and return migration and distinguish between short and long-distance migration. I confirm that long-distance migrants are more skilled than short-distance migrants, as predicted by theory, and I show that return migrants are a mix of successes and failures.

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