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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far Beyond Remittances
Clemens, Michael A.; Özden, Çağlar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …
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Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory — arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …
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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox
Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020
How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267712
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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2013
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …
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Split decisions : family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. -- migration ; households ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672252
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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096767
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Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox
Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020
How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270290
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Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration
Clemens, Michael A. - 2007
The emigration of highly skilled workers can in theory lower social welfare in the migrant-sending country. If such workers produce a good whose consumption conveys a positive externality - such as nurses and doctors in a very poor country - the loss can be greater, and welfare can even decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051466
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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/10014083891
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy research literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144513