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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 consider a range of international development processes. These include human …
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-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
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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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effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of ex ante public-private agreement to link skill formation and … skilled migration for the mutual benefit of origin countries, destination countries, and migrants: 'Global Skill Partnerships …
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
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.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …
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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 consider a range of international development processes. These include human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011077557
-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291333