Endogenous Skill Formation: Labor Market Integration by an Immigration

Type Journal Article - Journal of Economic Integration
Title Endogenous Skill Formation: Labor Market Integration by an Immigration
Author(s)
Volume 28
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 183-200
URL http://www.e-jei.org/upload/JEI_28_1_183_200_2013600008.pdf
Abstract
he paper fabricates endogenous skill formation in a two-sector general equilibrium model where the unemployment of the skilled workers is caused by efficiency wage. The paper also examines the effects of the immigration of unskilled labor, the emigration of skilled labor, and the inflow of foreign capital on unemployment, skilled-unskilled wage inequality, and the level of skill formation in each unskilled working family. We find that the immigration of unskilled labor raises both the rate and level of unemployment of the skilled labor and lowers both the relative skilled-unskilled wage inequality and the level of skill formation in each unskilled working family under certain conditions. However, the emigration of skilled labor or the inflow of foreign capital gives opposite results.

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