Head-content or headcount? short-term skilled labour movements as a source of growth
By: by Massimiliano Tani.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 1934; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 1934
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Foreign workers -- United States; Foreign workers -- Great Britain; Foreign workers -- Australia; Skilled labor -- United States; Skilled labor -- Great Britain; Skilled labor -- Australia; Economic development
Description: "This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows. Gross flows however capture the volume of interactions and knowledge exchanges between workers living in different countries, which in turn affect the stock of knowledge available to their places of residences, and hence their ability to innovate and grow. A simulation based on available US, British and Australian data on international business visits reveals that short-term skilled labour movements have a positive and not insignificant effect on growth"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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