Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
- Title
- Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?
- Author
- Gouranga G. Das
- Keywords
- HIB; immigration; innovation; wage gap; skill; R&D; policy; RAISE Act
- Issue Date
- 2018-05
- Publisher
- Ifo Institute for Economic Research
- Citation
- CESifo Working Paper, v. 7082, Page. 1-28
- Abstract
- With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage, aggravating wage inequality. In essence, we infer: (i) if R&D inputs contributes only to skilled sector, wage inequality increases in general; (ii) for wage gap to decrease, R&D sector must produce inputs that goes into unskilled manufacturing sector; (iii) even with two types of specific R&D inputs entering into the skilled and unskilled sectors separately, unskilled labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation.
- URI
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3214409https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/126346
- ISSN
- 2364‐1428
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