Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration
Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration
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DOI：
10.1007/s00148-018-0708-x
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发表时间：
2019-07-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Lumpe, Claudia
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作者：
Lumpe, Claudia
本文研究目的地国人口的社会流动信念如何影响高技能移民的区位选择。我们汇集了IAB人才流失数据集的宏观数据与ISSP 1987-2010年期间的人口调查数据，以确定公众对社会流动性的信念对主要经合组织移民国家高技能移民（股票）份额的影响。实证结果表明，美国梦信念较高的国家，即，他们坚信通过自己的努力可以实现社会阶梯的攀登，随着时间的推移，吸引了更高比例的高技能移民。这一模式甚至与这些国家现有的社会流动性相对较低的事实不符。
This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country's population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain-drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the effect of public beliefs in social mobility on the share of high-skilled immigrants (stocks) in the main OECD immigration countries. The empirical results suggest that countries with higher American Dream beliefs, i.e., with stronger beliefs that climbing the social ladder can be realized by own hard work, attracted a higher proportion of high-skilled immigrants over time. This pattern even holds against the fact that existing social mobility in these countries is relatively lower.