TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethnic discrimination and the migration of skilled labor
AU - Docquier, Frédérick
AU - Rapoport, Hillel
PY - 2003/2
Y1 - 2003/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Discrimination
KW - Ethnic minorities
KW - Human capital formation
KW - Migration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0037330106&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0304-3878(02)00081-0
DO - 10.1016/S0304-3878(02)00081-0
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AN - SCOPUS:0037330106
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 70
SP - 159
EP - 172
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
IS - 1
ER -
