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Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017

-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …

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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …

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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox

Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020

How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...

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