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Guest‐worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Author(s) -
Azarnert Leonid V.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
review of development economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1467-9361
pISSN - 1363-6669
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2012.00664.x
Subject(s) - human capital , labour economics , economics , wage , attractiveness , distribution (mathematics) , fertility , capital (architecture) , demographic economics , work (physics) , population , market economy , geography , sociology , mechanical engineering , psychology , mathematical analysis , demography , mathematics , archaeology , psychoanalysis , engineering
This work focuses on a temporary guest‐worker‐type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low‐skilled guest‐worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus, it prevents a fraction of individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country, the actual number of educated workers in the source economy decreases, and the aggregate level of human capital in this economy would thus be negatively affected.