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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...

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The economics of temporary migrations

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2015

Many migrations are temporary - a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

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The economics of temporary migrations

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2015

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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...

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Visa policies, networks and the cliff at the border

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2012

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

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Understanding international migration : evidence from a new dataset of bilateral stocks (1960-2000)

Llull, Joan - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 2, pp. 221-255

In this paper I present a new database of bilateral migrant stocks and I provide newevidence on the determinants of international migration. The newCensusbased data are obtained from National Statistical Offices of 24 OECD countries, and they cover the total stock of immigrants in each...

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Migration and the demographic shift

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications...

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Offshoring and Migration in a World with Policy Spillovers

Beverelli, Cosimo - 2011

Using a trade in task model that extends the one of Ottaviano, Peri, and Wright (2010) to three countries, we study the effects of immigration and offshoring costs on employment. Tasks can be performed by migrants, offshore workers or natives, with sorting along a continuum of task determined by...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza - 2013

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection …

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Facing displacement and a global pandemic : evidence from a fragile state

Di Maio, Michele; Fasani, Francesco; Sciabolazza, … - 2022

We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while 24.7% of them have suffered economic damages and 14.6% have experienced negative health effects due...

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