Move inside the “Bell Jar”: A Property Rights Approach to the Skills of Migrants

Schlegel, Stefan (2018). Move inside the “Bell Jar”: A Property Rights Approach to the Skills of Migrants. Interational Migration, 56(6), pp. 36-51. Wiley 10.1111/imig.12499

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This article develops the idea that control over somebody's migration can be understood as a property right. In the context of migration and development, this means (1) that skills of migrants can be explained as a function of access to property rights; and (2) that the possibilities of investing in these skills could be improved by giving migrants access to property rights over their own migration. Compared with efforts to formalize property rights within developing economies, access to the property right over migration has the important advantage that its value does not depend on the (often dysfunctional) institutions of the country of origin.

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