Interregional labour mobility, inequality and wage convergence

Autor:	Ashok Parikh, Michiel van Leuvensteijn
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Highly skilled Inequality media_common.quotation_subject Wage Convergence (economics) language.human_language West germany German Economics language health care economics and organizations media_common
Zdroj:	Applied Economics. 35:931-941
ISSN:	1466-4283 0003-6846
DOI:	10.1080/0003684022000035827
Popis:	The objectives of the paper are to examine the determinants of interregional labour migration for German regions using the data on gross flows of labour movements across regions. This is one of the few studies where data on labour migration is used. There also was a wage convergence after reunification between regions of East and West Germany and this to a certain extent provides an explanation for non-linear relationship between wage differences among regions and migration. As the study distinguishes the blue-collar and white-collar wage difference between regions, different relationships between migration and blue and white-collar workers' wage differences can be assessed. We also test the hypothesis whether highly skilled workers migrate to the regions where inequality is greater while less skilled workers tend to migrate to the regions where inequality is low.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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