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Title: Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Author(s): Martin Kahanec and Klaus F Zimmermann

Publication Date: July 2008

Keyword(s): ethnicity, Gini-coefficient, human capital, income distribution, Inequality, migration, minority and skill allocation

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: 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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Kahanec, M and Zimmermann, K. 2008. 'Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6899