Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,422
Cover Image
EU Faces a Tough Demographic Reckoning
Grieveson, Richard; Leitner, Sandra M.; Stehrer, Robert - 2019
By 2030, labour demand could be equal to labour supply in most of the EU, creating significant challenges for policy-makers and firms. The 'tipping point' at which labour demand will become equal to labour supply in the EU – that is, when labour will become a constraint on economic growth –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100237
Cover Image
Migration and Economic Growth: a 21st Century Perspective
Moody, Cat - 2006
While there is extensive literature on the determinants of migration and its microeconomic effects, the New Zealand … theoretical or empirical literature specifically examining the effects of migration on economic growth is not as comprehensive. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115590
Cover Image
Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence
Fry, Julie - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115677
Cover Image
The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
Cover Image
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479248
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270292
Cover Image
The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
Cover Image
Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence
Fry, Julie - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757204
Cover Image
Chapter 66. International Migration and the Developing World
Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4363-4414). 2010
In this chapter, I discuss the recent academic research on international migration, focusing on the causes and … on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025736