Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effe...

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Main Authors:	Docquier, Frederic, Ozden, Caglar, Kone, Zovanga L., Mattoo, Aaditya
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	AGING EMIGRATION IMMIGRATION LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS OECD COUNTRIES EDUCATION WAGES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITY SKILLED LABOR
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447801545070536167/Labor-Market-Effects-of-Demographic-Shifts-and-Migration-in-OECD-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31078

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spelling	okr-10986-310782022-05-01T12:13:35Z Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries Docquier, Frederic Ozden, Caglar Kone, Zovanga L. Mattoo, Aaditya Ozden, Caglar AGING EMIGRATION IMMIGRATION LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS OECD COUNTRIES EDUCATION WAGES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITY SKILLED LABOR The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effects of these three forces on wages across different skill and age groups over 2000 to 2010. The variation in the age and educational structure of the labor force emerges as the dominant influence on wage changes. The impact is uniform and egalitarian: in almost all countries, the changes in the age and skill structure favor the low-skilled and hurt the highly skilled across age groups. Immigration plays a relatively minor role, except in a handful of open countries, like Australia and Canada, where it accentuates the wage-equalizing impact of ageing and education. Emigration is the only inegalitarian influence, especially in Ireland and a few Eastern European countries which have seen significant outflows of high-skilled labor to Western European Union countries. 2018-12-28T15:46:30Z 2018-12-28T15:46:30Z 2018-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447801545070536167/Labor-Market-Effects-of-Demographic-Shifts-and-Migration-in-OECD-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31078 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8676 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	AGING EMIGRATION IMMIGRATION LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS OECD COUNTRIES EDUCATION WAGES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITY SKILLED LABOR
spellingShingle	AGING EMIGRATION IMMIGRATION LABOR MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS OECD COUNTRIES EDUCATION WAGES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INEQUALITY SKILLED LABOR Docquier, Frederic Ozden, Caglar Kone, Zovanga L. Mattoo, Aaditya Ozden, Caglar Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
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description	The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effects of these three forces on wages across different skill and age groups over 2000 to 2010. The variation in the age and educational structure of the labor force emerges as the dominant influence on wage changes. The impact is uniform and egalitarian: in almost all countries, the changes in the age and skill structure favor the low-skilled and hurt the highly skilled across age groups. Immigration plays a relatively minor role, except in a handful of open countries, like Australia and Canada, where it accentuates the wage-equalizing impact of ageing and education. Emigration is the only inegalitarian influence, especially in Ireland and a few Eastern European countries which have seen significant outflows of high-skilled labor to Western European Union countries.
format	Working Paper
author	Docquier, Frederic Ozden, Caglar Kone, Zovanga L. Mattoo, Aaditya Ozden, Caglar
author_facet	Docquier, Frederic Ozden, Caglar Kone, Zovanga L. Mattoo, Aaditya Ozden, Caglar
author_sort	Docquier, Frederic
title	Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
title_short	Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
title_full	Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
title_fullStr	Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
title_full_unstemmed	Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
title_sort	labor market effects of demographic shifts and migration in oecd countries
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/447801545070536167/Labor-Market-Effects-of-Demographic-Shifts-and-Migration-in-OECD-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31078
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Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

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