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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 and Development Research Is Moving Far Beyond Remittances
Clemens, Michael A.; Ozden, Caglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144463
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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...
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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 …
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081686
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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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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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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 literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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