Migration and Forsaken Schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Ilhom Abdulloev; Gil S. Epstein; Ira N. Gang

doi:10.2478/izajodm-2020-0004

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Migration and Forsaken Schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

IZA Journal of Development and Migration

Volume 11 (2020): Issue 1 (January 2020)

By: Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang

Open Access

|Mar 2020

Abstract

Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries—the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan—are facing a forsaken schooling phenomenon. Once completing their compulsory schooling, young people in these countries are forsaking additional schooling because of opportunities to migrate to high-paying low-skilled jobs in the Russian Federation. The countries face a loss in human capital formation.

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