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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

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.
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2008
Authors: Kahanec, Martin ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Institutions: DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)
Subject: Inequality | income distribution | human capital | skill allocation | migration | ethnicity | minority | Gini-coefficient
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Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
Language: English
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Number 781 27 pages long
Classification: D33 - Factor Income Distribution ; E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; F22 - International Migration ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
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