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The Effects of Liberalizing Migration on Permanent Migrants' Education Structure
Author(s) -
Huber Peter,
BockSchappelwein Julia
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/jcms.12097
Subject(s) - accession , liberalization , demographic economics , member states , political science , economics , international economics , development economics , european union , market economy
This article explores how the full liberalization of migration as a consequence of A ustria's European economic area ( EEA ) accession in 1994 impacted on the education structure of migrants to A ustria. To identify the effects of this policy change, use is made of the fact that only migrants from EEA member states were affected, while third country citizens were not. Robust evidence is found that the share of low educated permanent migrants from the EEA to A ustria reduced relative to the share of low educated permanent migrants from other countries after A ustria's EEA accession. This suggests that liberalizing migration may be an effective way to improve the skill structure of migrants in countries with a high share of low‐skilled migrants.