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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268676
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739090
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361
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How labor migrants fare : with 34 figures and 114 tables
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (ed.) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760193
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Sibling influence on the human capital of the left behind
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, … - 2013
While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left …, parental migration seems to trigger changes in the roles and effects among children. However, it is primarily older sisters who … reduce hardship - in response to parental migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229308
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Fading hope and the rise in inequality in the United States
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596068
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586006
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Occuptational choice across generations
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272271
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Occupational choice across generations
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272294