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Chapter 66. International Migration and the Developing World

Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4363-4414). 2010

on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …In this chapter, I discuss the recent academic research on international migration, focusing on the causes and …

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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...

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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

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

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Chapter 3. Migration and the Demographic Shift

Zaiceva, A.; Zimmermann, K.F. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 119-177). 2016

This chapter investigates the two-way relationship between population aging and international migration. After … documenting the trends for both, we review the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the … role of age and aging. We subsequently analyze the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, as …

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Immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania : drawing best practices from Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs' experiences

Ozmen, Ozgur; Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Dragusin, Mariana - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 56, pp. 260-275

outlined in this paper emphasize both descriptive and practical features. Migration-related particularities, entrepreneurs …

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A crook is a crook ... but is he still a crook abroad? : on the effect of immigration on destination-country corruption

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Redlin, Margarete - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we … consistently find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level …

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A crook is a crook ... but is he still a crook abroad? : on the effect of immigration on destination-country corruption

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Redlin, Margarete - 2014

find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country's corruption level, immigration …This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … dataset consisting of annual immigration stocks of OECD countries from 207 countries of origin for the period 1984 - 2008, we …

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Brain drain and brain gain in Italy and Ireland in the age of mass migration

Gomellini, Matteo; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure … selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and receiving country perspectives - has given rise to claims that migration … level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both …

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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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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018

STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...

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