EURO 2025 Leeds
Abstract Submission

1675. Education, Student Performance, and Migration: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Approach

Invited abstract in session TB-23: OR for Socio-Humanitarian Development , stream OR for Societal Development.

Tuesday, 10:30-12:00
Room: Esther Simpson 3.01

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Veronika Mitkova
Institute of Economics, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava

Abstract

Migration and its impacts are attracting growing attention as the number of international migrants has increased over the past five decades three times according to the International Organization for Migration. The current global estimate is that there were around 281 million international migrants in the world in 2020, which equates to 3.6 percent of the global population. Most studies on migration have overlooked the education spendings in source and receiving countries. The aim of this work is to contribute to our knowledge of the impact of education spending on student performance and migration. The approach is mainly based on the computable general equilibrium models methodology using data from 80 countries around the data from the world and the Global Trade Analysis Project. Overall, the results indicate that the intelligence quotient and the human development index influence education outcomes more than the share of education spending in GDP. The impact of education on wages of migrants depends on whether they are skilled or unskilled: the wage of unskilled workers decreases due to the migration of skilled workers and increases due to the migration of unskilled workers. On the other hand, the wages of skilled workers increase because of the immigration of skilled workers and decrease as a result of the immigration of unskilled workers. We have obtained encouraging results demonstrating the (in)dependence of the education spendings and wages of immigrant workers.

Keywords

Status: accepted

Back to the list of papers