their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …

The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One …, IMF, and World Bank meetings demanding global labor standards. Comparing the claims made in this debate with the outcomes … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity … migration to a no-migration counterfactual. In the long run, natives in countries that received a lot of migration - such as …

mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different … reasons neither increased migration nor international transfers of savings is expected to offer much assistance in digesting …When considering the consequences of using international capital movements and especially migration to mediate …

This paper surveys key developments in the theory of international migration and international trade, and provides a … few stylized facts. International migration, in many important cases, such as cross-country differences in productivity … underdeveloped countries while pressures for international migration from poor to rich countries are strong. The balancing factors …

studies by focusing on the relationship between job mobility and migration. First, the proportion of geographic mobility that … relationship between migration and job mobility. Third, the effect of migration on the wage gains of individuals is studied and … Mature Men and the Coleman-Rossi Retrospective Life History Study), the importance of the relationship between migration and …

-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …

in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …