Ethnic discrimination and the migration of skilled labor

We develop a model of interdependency between emigration, education investment, and discrimination, in the context of an ethnically divided developing economy. Assuming a rent-extraction basis for discrimination, we first endogenize ethnic discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to...

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Published inJournal of development economics Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 159 - 172
Main Authors Docquier, Frédéric, Rapoport, Hillel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.02.2003
Elsevier
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
SeriesJournal of Development Economics
Subjects
Development economics
Development studies
Discrimination
Economic models
Ethnic minorities
Ethnicity
Human capital
Human capital formation
Labor market
Labour migration
Migration
Minority & ethnic groups
Racial discrimination
Studies
Ethnic minorities
Discrimination
Human capital formation
015
J71
Migration
F22
J24
J15
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Summary:We develop a model of interdependency between emigration, education investment, and discrimination, in the context of an ethnically divided developing economy. Assuming a rent-extraction basis for discrimination, we first endogenize ethnic discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic inequality. Under the free migration assumption, we find the intuitive result that migration prospects have a protective effect on the minority. Immigration restrictions set by receiving countries, on the other hand, have the paradoxical effect of creating migration flows that would otherwise have remained latent.
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ISSN:0304-3878
1872-6089
DOI:10.1016/S0304-3878(02)00081-0