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Impact of temporary migration on long-run economic development : the legacy of the sent-down youth program

Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Zhao, Guochang - 2024

Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent between 1 and 10 years there. This is known as the "sent-down youth" (SDY) program. This paper examines how this internal migration impacted rural economic development in the regions...

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Global talent flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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International migration and the integration of labor markets

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2002

centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Oceania and from parts of Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) to other parts of Asia, Africa and the New World. World wars …, immigration restrictions and the Great Depression resulted in a period of low international migration (1913 to 1945). In the post-World …

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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach

Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023

of the world population living in extreme poverty. …

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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 literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...

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

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

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Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2018

This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection...

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International immigration and labor regulation

Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024

The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...

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The selection of high-skilled migrants

Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian; Netz, … - 2015

We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive...

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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...

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