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Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States.

Kirby, Gretchen; Sullivan, Margaret; Potamites, Elizabeth; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008

Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) are self-managed accounts of $3,000 offered to select recipients of Unemployment Insurance benefits to support individual choice and control in reemployment services and promote a quick return to work. PRAs can be used to purchase training, intensive career...

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Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program.

Clary, Elizabeth; Ladinsky, Jonathan; Angus, Megan Hague; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

This report presents findings from an evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program. Authorized under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, the program serves migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents by offering services such as case management, skills training, and related...

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael - 2010

globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …

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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Clemens, Michael - 2009

Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...

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Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program

Clary, Elizabeth; Ladinsky, Jonathan; Angus, Megan Hague; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122028

Responses to Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs): Findings from the Demonstration States

Kirby, Gretchen; Sullivan, Margaret; Potamites, Elizabeth; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008

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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...

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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363

Clemens, Michael - 2014

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...

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Free end-point linear-quadratic control subject to implicit continuous-time systems : Necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability

Geerts, A.H.W. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1992

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