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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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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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information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …
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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...
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immigration from poor countries by addressing the "root causes" of migration. We review existing evidence on the effectiveness of … that aid's capacity to deter migration is small at best. Aid can only encourage economic growth, employment, and security … deter migration but to shape it for mutual benefit. …
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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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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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Conditional Cash Transfers are increasingly used by development aid agencies to reduce the incentives for migration … from low-income countries. The evidence to date suggests that such transfers typically increase the rate of migration when … human capital and by lowering capital constraints-increasing both migration aspirations and the means to achieve them. But …
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