{"product_id":"does-economic-inequality-influence-the-immigration-of-high-and-low-skilled-individuals-von-simon-valentin","title":"Does economic inequality influence the immigration of high- and low-skilled individuals?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcademic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Sociology - Economy and Industry, grade: 1,0, Hertie School of Governance, language: English, abstract: With having in mind the effect of high- and low-skilled migration for economic prosperity, this study empirically tests with immigration data from 20 countries from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1985 to 2010 the effect of inequality in a receiving country on high- and low-skilled migration to this country, so that the research question that this study seeks to answer is: Does economic inequality influence the immigration of high- and low-skilled individuals?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the broad context of the study of economic inequality within societies, one of the most prominent topics is the relationship between inequality and economic prosperity of a country, which is studied by many authors such as Kenworthy (2003) or Wren (2013). With this study, I want to contribute to this research by focusing on one possible mechanism within the inequality-economic prosperity relationship, namely migration. Attracting and retaining highly qualified people is crucial to the development of a knowledge-based economy in which ideas and innovation drive technological and social progress. Moreover, the perception and acceptance of immigration within a society are largely shaped by the skill level of immigrants. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding how high-skilled people and in contrast, how low-skilled people choose their country of destination when migrating is, therefore, crucial ¿ for sending and receiving countries alike. Migration and especially cross-border migration is a highly complex topic and the individual decision to migrate is influenced by a multitude of drivers. However, when looking at the differences between high- and low-skilled migrations, economic drivers are especially important, because more than for other drivers such as political or social drivers they affect high- and low-skilled people differently. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssuming that migration is at least partly determined by the desire to realize economic opportunities abroad and assuming that high-skilled migrants should benefit from the opportunities in less equal destination countries, while low-skilled migrants should benefit from a compressed wage distribution in more equal destination countries, a stream of literature, building on Borjas (1987), studies the relationship between inequality in sending and receiving countries and the consequences for high- and low-skilled migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783346022585\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn empirical test\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783346022585","offer_id":58750885167429,"sku":"9783346022585","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_5f35a6ab-252a-4599-85fe-82b2013480c2.jpg?v=1786334910","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/does-economic-inequality-influence-the-immigration-of-high-and-low-skilled-individuals-von-simon-valentin","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}