How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Artikel

Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. This is discussed and theoretically derived in a core model, and empirically supported using unique data from the WIID database and OECD.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 2014 ; Pages: 1-13 ; Heidelberg: Springer

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

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kahanec, Martin ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2014

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/2193-9039-3-2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149402
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ