Autore
Dustmann, Christian

Titolo
Earnings adjustment of temporary migrants
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1990 - Fascicolo: 21 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 23

The high effort of migrants to invest into human capital and the positive selective character of migration are the main explanations for the rapid decrease of the earnings gap between migrants and natives, as found in a variety of empirical studies on migration to the USA, Canada and Australia. This paper shows that in the case of temporary migration the optimal investment into country specific human capital is lower than in the case of permanent migration and may not be sufficient to allow migrants’ earnings to catch up with those of native workers. Furthermore, it is shown that migration is positively selective only under certain labor market conditions. Empirical findings support the hypotheses of low human capital investment in the case of temporary migration. The results strongly suggest the need for carefully differentiating between temporary and permanent migration when investigating migrant’s earnings assimilation.



Testo completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/360

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