global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora networks on core globalization outcomes such as trade, foreign …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

networks have been studied in the context of trade (Gould, 1994), FDI (Javorcik et al., 2011; Kugler and Rapoport, 2007), and …

quantitative multi-country model with trade, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with the same number of migrants …, where all migrants are neutrally selected from their countries of origin. We find that most receiving countries benefit from …

entrepreneurship within a particular city or region. In making the decision where to locate, what factors does an entrepreneur need to …