Is Skilled Immigration Always Good for Growth in the Receiving Economy?

Leonid V. Azarnert, Bar-Ilan University

Abstract. A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host economy’s human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or growth depleting if the latter effect dominates.

JEL Codes: F22; O15; O40

Keywords: Skilled immigration, Growth