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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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The rules governing trade and capital flows have been at the center of controversy as globalization has proceeded. One …, IMF, and World Bank meetings demanding global labor standards. Comparing the claims made in this debate with the outcomes … market. Changes in trade policy have had modest impacts on labour market. Other aspects of globalization -- immigration …
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This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity … migration to a no-migration counterfactual. In the long run, natives in countries that received a lot of migration - such as …
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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 … underdeveloped countries while pressures for international migration from poor to rich countries are strong. The balancing factors …
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mobility. Evidence is found of significant demographic effects on both migration and the current account, but for different … reasons neither increased migration nor international transfers of savings is expected to offer much assistance in digesting … movements and especially migration to mediate international differences in demographic patterns, I broaden the focus from the …
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studies by focusing on the relationship between job mobility and migration. First, the proportion of geographic mobility that … relationship between migration and job mobility. Third, the effect of migration on the wage gains of individuals is studied and … Mature Men and the Coleman-Rossi Retrospective Life History Study), the importance of the relationship between migration and …
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in approximately 4000 markets per country. We then move from groundnuts to globalization by building an exact TFP index … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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In 2011, a reform in the United Arab Emirates allowed any employer to renew a migrant's visa upon contract expiration without written permission from the initial employer. We find that the reform increased incumbent migrants' earnings and firm retention of these workers. This occurs despite an...
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phenomena of migration and trade in a world where countries use different skill-specific technologies and workers have different …Two prominent features of globalization in recent decades are the remarkable increase in trade and in migratory flows … between industrializing and industrialized countries. Due to restrictive laws in the receiving countries and high migration …
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This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific … the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more …
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