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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...

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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or … and review the evidence on these channels. The recent empirical literature shows that high-skill emigration need not … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …

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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

Poot, Jacques - 2013

The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home country by working abroad. On the other hand, some...

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Migrants' Remittances : Channelling Globalization

Anghel, Remus - 2015

In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization and growth in the developing world. By transferring home...

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Globalization and Wage Convergence : Mexico and the United States

Gandolfi, Davide - 2014

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising commercial integration and foreign direct investment followed the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree...

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Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science

Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaule, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021

This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network— representing 20-33% of the frontier...

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Two Centuries of International Migration

Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2014

This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus principally on long-distance migration to rich...

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Globalization and Income Inequality

Meschi, Elena F. - 2007

This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income...

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Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015

Hammar, Olle - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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Geography of Skills and Global Inequality

Burzyński, Michał - 2018

targeting access to all levels of education and sustainable urban development are vital to reduce demographic pressures and …

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