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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …
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This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …
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strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
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strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
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Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …
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This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
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This paper examines the distributional impact of globalization on the poor in urban China. Employing the kernel density … influence of several other variables. – globalization ; poverty ; China … provinces for 1988-2001. Panels of the income shares of the poorest 20, 10 and 5 per cent of the urban residents were then …
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Does globalization increase inequality in developing countries, and if so, how? In a theoretical model of a regionally … regional growth may also raise inequality within each region. It could even reduce absolute income per capita in the less … growth rates ave increased both interregional and intraregional inequality. Moreover, growth of skills-based export …
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The article examines the risks of deepening poverty and income inequality that arise from global challenges of … increase of socio-economic risks, including poverty and inequality, the study of this issue is extremely relevant. The …, and their non-repayment, which generally cause sudden poverty and increasing inequality of income and property. Purpose of …
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …
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