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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
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Ethnicity
Gini coefficient
Human capital
Income distribution
Inequality
Migration
Minority
Skill allocation
Demography
Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
Gini coefficient
Human capital
Income distribution
Inequality
Migration
Minority
Skill allocation
Demography
Anthropology
Sociology and Political Science
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27068
Abstract
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.
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Journal article
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2014-12-01
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10.1186/2193-9039-3-2