Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Arbeitspapier

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national distribution of skills and thereby equality in the receiving society. This paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is theoretically explained in a core model and empirically documented using unique data from the WIID database and OECD.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 781

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Factor Income Distribution ; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; International Migration ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Thema: Inequality ; income distribution ; human capital ; skill allocation ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; Gini-coefficient ; Qualifikation ; Allokation ; Einwanderung ; Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte ; Lohnstruktur ; Einkommensverteilung ; Internationale Arbeitsmobilität ; Humankapital ; OECD-Staaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kahanec, Martin ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27305
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ