Ethnic discrimination and the migration of skiled labor

Docquier, Frédéric;Rapoport, Hillel
(2003) Journal of Development Economics — Vol. 70, n° 1, p. 159-172 (2003)

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  • Docquier, FrédéricMinistère de la région Wallone
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  • Rapoport, HillelBar Ilan University
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Abstract
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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  • Ministère de la région WalloneSES and University of Lille 2 - CADRE
  • Bar Ilan UniversityDepatment of Economics and Stanford University - Landau Economics Building

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Docquier, F., & Rapoport, H. (2003). Ethnic discrimination and the migration of skiled labor. Journal of Development Economics, 70(1), 159-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878(02)00081-0 (Original work published 2003)