This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals from 1990-2005 based on the difference-GMM method of Arellano and Bond (1991). We find that various dimensions of financial reform impact remittances differently. Increased...

Increasing international migratory flows in the last four decades is one of the most visible manifestations of the globalization process. In spite of its potential positive effect on global efficiency and well-being, little progress has been made in designing and promoting a normative and...

Japan needs to develop a strategy for planning and realizing economic integration suitable for Asia. Such a strategy should cover not only liberalization of trade in goods and services and investment but also management of international migration. When developing the strategy, it is important to...

In Ergänzung zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 3/2015 plädiert Achim Dercks, Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag, dafür, den eingeschlagenen Weg mit erleichterten zuwanderungsrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen weiter zu gehen und geeignete Willkommensstrukturen zu etablieren, um die...

Hans-Werner Sinn antwortet auf Einwände zu seinem Artikel »Ökonomische Effekte der Migration«.

Hans-Werner Sinn stellt weitere Überlegungen zu den Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnungen der Migration zur Diskussion.