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development policies are increasingly including efforts to prevent migration with foreign aid. Education and TVET (Technical and …
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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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Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high...
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In the aftermath of the recent economic and migration crisis, Greece was found facing questions such as whether immigration is advantageous for the economy of the country or whether the benefits of immigration outweigh its economic cost. During a recession, immigration usually attracts general...
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Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high...
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This paper presents the simplest supply-and-demand textbook model of how immigration works in a market economy (Borjas, 1999, pp.89-93). While it may be oversimplified in that it assumes that all labour is homogeneous and that machinery and equipment, land, and other productive resources are...
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This survey reviews both theoretical and empirical papers that examine the economic effects of labour mobility with a particular reference to intra-European migration. We address three broad sets of issues: Firstly, the effect that immigration has on the host country's labour market. Although...
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