ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly … with standard observational estimators. It finds large effects on spending, borrowing, and human capital investment, but no …

migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … address these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category … of New Zealand?s immigration policy. They survey applicants to the 2002-05 ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for the …

government has tried to manage the flows of migrants in the hope of reconciling a chronic excess demand for labor with mounting … of immigration policy and its goal has become very weak and the level of foreign population is at an all time high …

vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …

-fertilization of experiences. Total factor productivity comparisons suggest that capital accumulation in China coupled with more …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …;innovation shortfallquot;, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (Ramp;D) when compared with some high … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

owners could experience lower incomes while wages rise. Globally, the welfare gains of new migrants could be expected to … exceed the losses of old migrants by a wide margin. The remaining natives in sending countries could enjoy a net increase in … differentials with high-income countries, South-South migrants make substantial contributions to remittances …