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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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Optimal Migration : A World Perspective
Benhabib, Jess - 2010
We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An …
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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration increases the expected returns to skills in poor countries, linking the possibility of migrating (brain drain) with incentives to higher education (brain gain). If emigration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771799
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian - 2014
of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity …
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International Migration and International Trade
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - 2021
This paper surveys key developments in the theory of international migration and international trade, and provides a few stylized facts. International migration, in many important cases, such as cross-country differences in productivity, can be a complement to international flows of commodities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218419
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What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and demographic … fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world. The paper … drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration? Is it …
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