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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125

Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540578

North-South technology diffusion, regional integration, and the dynamics of the "natural trading partners" hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are natural trading partners,ʺ while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002482588

International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel (contributor); … - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793572

Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230198

Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793124

Migration and cross-border financial flows

Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787347

Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality

Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197

Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy : theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519903