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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
, 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974366
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062368
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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
, 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307430
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984655
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005874
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Expelling excellence: Exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063416
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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions … poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744640
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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653276