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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of …-run effect ranging from zero for the US to -0.8 percent in the UK. Third, over the period 1990-2000, immigration generally …
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The Impact of Large-Scale Migration on Poverty, Expenditures, and Labor Market Outcomes in Nepal
Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017
This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 and 2011, the share of male working age population abroad more than doubled, mostly due to young men leaving to work in Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The paper studies...
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Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
Christiaensen, Luc - 2019
With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world's demographics bifurcating into an older North and a younger South, there are substantial economic incentives and benefits for people to migrate. There are also important market and regulatory...
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Migration and Asset Accumulation in South India : Comparing Gains to Internal and International Migration from Kerala
Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2020
versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted …
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Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : What are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences?
Brownbridge, Martin - 2020
Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as measured by the Human Capital Index, than is typical...
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Global Migration of Talent and Tax Incentives : Evidence from Malaysia's Returning Expert Program
Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2018
This paper presents the first evidence on the efficacy of a major program designed to encourage the return migration of high-skilled individuals. The Malaysian Returning Expert Program targets high-skilled Malaysians abroad and provides them with tax incentives to return. At several eligibility...
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Global Talent Flows
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2018
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, the paper first reviews the...
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Global Migration Revisited : Short-Term Pains, Long-Term Gains, and the Potential of South-South Migration
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
This paper re-examines the development implications of international migration focusing on two issues: how the costs and benefits of migration change over time, and the significance of South-South migration for development. First, the analysis finds that although greater migration could push...
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Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990-2000) : Release 1.0
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
example, they transpose the skill structure of U.S. immigrants on the OECD total immigration stock. In this paper, the authors … receiving countries is restricted to OECD nations. The authors' database covers 92.7 percent of the OECD immigration stock. In …
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The Creative Wealth of Nations : How the Performing Arts Can Advance Development and Human Progress
Kabanda, Patrick - 2017
Cultural activities are increasingly noted as drivers of meaningful development. But they have yet to gain a prominent place in the architecture of development strategy. The performing arts, discussed here, exhibit direct effects on social progress and economic growth through trade in music,...
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