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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment - Working Paper 152

September 30, 2008
When countries select immigrants based on skill, what happens in the migrants' countries of origin? Departing skilled workers obviously tend to reduce stocks of skill there, but the prospect of skilled migration can induce more investment in skill. It is not clear which effect dominates. This pa...