The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 8,
no. 4, October 2016
(pp. 1-35)
Abstract
We provide new evidence of one channel through which circular labor migration has long-run effects on origin communities: by raising completed human capital of the next generation. We estimate the net effects of migration from Malawi to South African mines using newly digitized census and administrative data on access to mine jobs, a difference-in-differences strategy, and two opposite-signed and plausibly exogenous shocks to the option to migrate. Twenty years after these shocks, human capital is 4.8-6.9 percent higher among cohorts who were eligible for schooling in communities with the easiest access to migrant jobs.Citation
Dinkelman, Taryn, and Martine Mariotti. 2016. "The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8 (4): 1-35. DOI: 10.1257/app.20150405Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- F22 International Migration
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- L72 Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources
- O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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