How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

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

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
JournalIZA Journal of Migration
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2014

Keywords

  • Ethnicity
  • Gini coefficient
  • Human capital
  • Income distribution
  • Inequality
  • Migration
  • Minority
  • Skill allocation

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