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This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we … compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for … our destination countries over this period. Second, we extend the empirical model of migration choice across multiple …
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This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration …
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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 less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development …
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We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by … describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we … summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on individuals' outcomes, implications of migration for local labor market …
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countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has … effects of global migration during the past half century. That evidence falsifies most of the core predictions of the old … model. The economics of migration will regain vitality and relevance by discarding and replacing its outworn paradigm …
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technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as … well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two …
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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 destination countries, the settler economies in the nineteenth century and later …
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