How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Martin Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann

doi:10.1186/2193-9039-3-2

How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Martin Kahanec
, Klaus F. Zimmermann^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Public Policy

University of Bonn

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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 language	English
Article number	2
Journal	IZA Journal of Migration
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9039-3-2
State	Published - 1 Dec 2014

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

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

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

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