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Global skill partnerships: A proposal for technical training in a mobile world

Clemens, Michael A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of...

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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...

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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

'Guest workers' earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...

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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 …

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The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

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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A Pacific Skills Visa: Improving opportunities for skilled migration throughout the Pacific region

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A.; Dempster, Helen - 2021

migration model that can support such mutually beneficial mobility by moving training into the country of origin. In this paper …

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan Gatewood - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Does Development Reduce Migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

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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 high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and international emigration in this or any other region....

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Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...

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