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Devictor, Xavier - 2020

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to … seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii) Refugees today are less geographically concentrated. And (iv) refugees …

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Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries

Docquier, Frédéric - 2018

The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effects of these three forces on wages across...

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The Demographic Benefit of International Migration : Hypothesis and Application to the Middle Eastern and North African Contexts

Fargues, Philippe - 2016

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Multidimensional Poverty Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq

Noumedem Temgoua, Claudia - 2020

Decades of conflict have contributed to high flows of internal displacement in Iraq. The incidence of these flows on the welfare of internally displaced persons is not well understood. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the link between internal displacement...

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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

McKenzie, David J. - 2007

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

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Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America

Artuc, Erhan - 2018

The paths of many migrants include multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States arrived from a transit country as opposed to the country where they were born. Among...

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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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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 …

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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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A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-Oecd Destinations

Artuc, Erhan - 2017

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...

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