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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled...
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Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets
Dinkelman, Taryn; Kumchulesi, Grace; Mariotti, Martine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
Giovanni, Julian di - 2014
differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …
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Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Cai, Sheng; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Xiang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a dynamic spatial growth model to explore the role of trade and internal migration in the process of spatial development and aggregate growth. Growth is shaped by the best global and local ideas that contribute to the local stock of knowledge. Global ideas diffuse more to locations...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....
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Building a Wall Around Science : The Effect of U.S.-China Tensions on International Scientific Research
Flynn, Robert; Glennon, Britta; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines the impact of rising U.S.-China geopolitical tensions on three main dimensions of science: STEM trainee mobility between these countries, usage of scientific works between scientists in each country, and scientist productivity in each country. We examine each dimension from a...
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