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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307430
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Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants
Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with … compassionate and political sentiments without clear evidence that the regulations achieve the desired development goals and avoid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405032
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Global skill partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world
Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606561
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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653276
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Deterring emigration with foreign aid: An overview of evidence from low-income countries
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
to a limited degree. Beyond this, successful development in almost all formerly-poor countries has produced an increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873617
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Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533090
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The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270292
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Pathways for labor migration from Northern Central America: Five difficult but necessary proposals
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
Very few labor-based pathways for regular migration are available for people in Northern Central America, often called the 'Northern Triangle' of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. This note briefly summarizes the state of labor-based migration channels in the region. It then argues that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320013
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468120
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889