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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
This paper documents a stylized fact: the Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and …, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The … fundamentals driving these emigration life cycles to the United States since 1970 – income and education gaps between the US and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004966280
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252617
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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective
Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general … effects, those countries facing prevalent high-skilled emigration are the most candid victims to brain drain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468643
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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?
Hatton, Timothy; Williamson, Jeffery - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2002
Governments in the OECD note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032826
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Explaining US Immigration 1971-1998
Clark, Ximena; Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffery G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2002
In this paper we develop and estimate a model to explain the level and source country composition of immigration to the United States since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios to the US of source country income and education, and demographic structure, as well as relative inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032860
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What Determines Immigrations' Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high wage economies. It examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656429
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labour-Scarce Economies?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Today's labour-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114287
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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine
Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661820
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Migration Theory and Evidence: An Assessment
Ghatak, Subrata; Levine, Paul L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory beginning with a general encompassing model of migration which treats the Harris and Todaro (HT) model as a special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666601
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South-North Refugee Migration: Lessons for Development Cooperation
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
European development policies. By enhancing socio-economic conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South … countries to Germany. The econometric findings suggest that support of democracy, economic development and trade will not reduce … development cooperation therefore seems to need a long-term perspective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791466