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This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
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significant effect on development and economic growth in 28 member states. However, the findings also indicate that some countries … migration has indeed contributed to economic development in all member states over the period analysed, it has not necessarily …
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New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may be significantly positive, with at worst small negative effects. However, both large positive and large negative effects are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of...
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smallest countries, especially in the Caribbean and in Africa, face significant ‘emigration rates’ of their elites. …
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Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
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development. It is misdirected because, as we show, the stringency of the List bears an erratic and even counterproductive … relationship to the development level of the targeted countries. The List is also opaque: there have been no public estimates of …, balancing the national interest with evidence-based support for overseas development. …
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composition of U.S. immigration by source.This paper - a product of Investment Climate, Development Research Group - is part of a …
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The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
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The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463122
Vor dem Hintergrund einer wachsenden Weltbevölkerung ist für Deutschland für das Jahr 2060 eine Bevölkerung von 90 Millionen wahrscheinlicher als die offiziell vorausgesagte Abnahme auf 70 Millionen. Einer im nächsten halben Jahrhundert stabilen Einwohnerzahl Deutschlands entspricht eine...
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