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The Globalization of Refugee Flows
Devictor, Xavier; Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2022
This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …
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Growth, Distribution and Demography : Some Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
experience in the Old World, the New World last century and a half …
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Demographic Changes and International Factor Mobility
Helliwell, John F. - 2021
This paper reviews the extent and policy implications of linkages between demographic changes and international factor mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different reasons neither increased migration nor international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225961
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The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World'S Demographic Transition
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021
developed world. Absent an immediate and dramatic change in immigration, dependency ratios will roughly double over the next …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237964
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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the Us, Canada, Spain, and the UK
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069156
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International Migration and Human Rights
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice …, largely as a result of the immense international differences in labor productivity that exist in the world today. As an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137010
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The European Origins of Economic Development
Easterly, William - 2012
Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104984
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"Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration"
Taylor, Alan M. - 2013
Between 1870 and 1913, economic convergence among present OECD members (or even a wider sample of countries) was dramatic, about as dramatic as it has been over the past century and a half. The convergence can be documented in GDP per worker-hour, GDP per capita and in real wages. What were the...
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Foreign Born Scientists : Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries
Franzoni, Chiara - 2014
We report results from the first systematic study of the mobility of scientists engaged in research in a large number of countries. Data were collected from 17,182 respondents using a web-based survey of corresponding authors in 16 countries in four fields during 2011. We find considerable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066117
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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...
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