Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 3,353
Cover Image
How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361361
Cover Image
Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants between 2002 and 2007
Zhao, Zhong - 2018
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We … dataset that allows us to document changing wage inequality among migrants and among urban natives between 2002 and 2007. We … find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007, whereas it increased among urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920735
Cover Image
Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants between 2002 and 2007
Zhao, Zhong - 2018
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We … dataset that allows us to document changing wage inequality among migrants and among urban natives between 2002 and 2007. We … find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007, whereas it increased among urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938183
Cover Image
The effects of refugee immigration on income inequality in Germany : a case study
Manthei, Gerrit - 2020
Income inequality is a major public concern in many Western countries. The problem has intensified with the recent high immigration rates in Europe, particularly from outside the continent. However, the linkage between refugee immigration and income inequality in host countries has not been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534698
Cover Image
Wage, Literacy, and Numeracy Skills Inequality : Do Immigration Admission Categories Matter?
Mueller, Richard - 2020
Using the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we explore differences in literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills, for Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants. The novelty of this research is disaggregating the sample into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835587
Cover Image
Development of wage inequality for natives and immigrants in Germany : evidence from quantile regression and decomposition
Peters, Heiko - 2008
To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632604
Cover Image
Labor Market Integration and Migration : Impacts on Skill Formation and the Wage Structure
Behrens, Kristian; Sato, Yasuhiro - 2006
We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita GDP of host and source countries. To do so, we propose a model in which heterogeneous agents invest in the acquisition of skills, and in which final good production exhibits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057279
Cover Image
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
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/10014206892
Cover Image
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
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/10013325102
Cover Image
Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694689