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The Impact of International Migration on Inclusive Growth : A Review
Koczan, Zsoka; Peri, Giovanni; Pinat, Magali; Rozhkov, … - 2022
the destination country through the impact on labor markets, productivity, innovation, demographic structure, fiscal …
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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
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Migration and dynamics : how a leakage of human capital lubricates the engine of economic growth
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2013
This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...
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Migrants and economic performance in the EU15 : their allocations across countries, industries and job types and their (productivity) growth impacts at the sectoral and regional le...
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2010
Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is the focus of this study - are few although there has been an increased interest in this area. This study addresses this issue in a cross-country and regional perspective with a...
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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Chapter 19. The Impact of International Migration on Economic Growth in the Global Economy
Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1027-1075). 2015
empirically. We estimate regression models of 1950–2010 decadal growth in most countries of the world and show that a country …
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Educating in the East, emigrating to the West?
Kancs, D'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010
This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …
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Modelling the flow of knowledge and human capital : a framework of innovative capital
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel - 2011
Recently, the EU Council adopted a new labour migration policy instrument - the EU Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting the highly skilled workers to the EU. The present paper examines the potential impacts, which BC may cause on less developed sending countries (LDC). Our results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524909
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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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