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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Clemens, Michael - 2009

Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...

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Labor and investment demand at the firm level: A comparison of French, German and U.S. manufacturing, 1970–79

Mairesse, Jacques; Dormont, Brigitte - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1985

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …

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Labor market institutions, taxation and the underground economy

Jacques, Jean-François; Fugazza, Marco - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2004

The paper aims at qualifying the links between labor-market-institutions, taxation, tax monitoring, and underground … the government. Vacancies and workers search are directed at a specific labor market. Workers are heterogenous in the …

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Low-Wage Work and Labor Market Institutions in France

Askenazy, Philippe; Gautié, Jérôme; Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...

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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363

Clemens, Michael - 2014

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...

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The so-called “transformation problem” revisited: A brief comment

Duménil, Gérard - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 1984

the newer one is based on a confusion between the conceptual and factual determination of the value of labor power. Second …

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Disposiciones laborales en los tratados de libre comercio: balance y perspectivas

Siroën, Jean-Marc - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael - 2010

globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …

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