Zovanga L Kone

Biographic Data

ID6729204
NAMEZovanga L Kone
GIVEN NAMESZovanga L
FAMILY NAMEKone
SIGNATUREKONE Z L
AFFILIATIONSCOMPAS, 58 Banbury Road, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6QS, UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Self-employment and reason for migration

    Open AccessZovanga L Kone, Isabel Ruiz et al.ARTICLESmall Business Economics2021

    This paper explores differences in the likelihood of engaging in self-employment among migrants who moved for different reasons to the UK. The results suggest that, conditional on being in employment, those who initially migrated for asylum reasons are six percentage points more likely to engage in self-employment than the UK-born, while those who migrated for work reasons are not significantly different from UK-born workers in this regard. We al…

  • Causes des migrations et conséquences du Brexit sur le marché du travail

    Zovanga Kone, Zovanga L Kone et al.ARTICLEHommes & migrations2019

    La probable sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne questionne la politique migratoire britannique, notamment en direction des ressortissants de l’UE. Afin de prévoir les conséquences d’une modification de l’accès de ces ressortissants sur l’immigration de main-d’œuvre, et donc sur le marché du travail outre-Manche, le gouvernement britannique a produit, fin 2018, un Livre blanc précisant le nouveau régime d’immigration envisagé. Sa principal…

  • Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

    Open AccessFrédéric Docquier, Çağlar Özden et al.BOOK2018

    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 wag…

  • Internal borders and migration in India

    Open AccessZovanga L Kone, Maggie Y Liu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2018Cited by: 2References: 6

    Internal mobility is a critical component of economic growth and development, as it enables the reallocation of labor to more productive opportunities across sectors and regions. Using detailed district-to-district migration data from the 2001 Census of India, the article highlights the role of state borders as significant impediments to internal mobility. The analysis finds that average migration between neighboring districts in the same state i…

  • Internal Borders and Migration in India

    Zovanga L Kone, Maggie Y Liu et al.BOOK2017

    Internal mobility is a critical component of economic growth and development, as it enables the reallocation of labor to more productive opportunities across sectors and regions. Using detailed district-to-district migration data from the 2001 Census of India, the paper highlights the role of state borders as significant impediments to internal mobility. The analysis finds that average migration between neighboring districts in the same state is …