Migration

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WORKING PAPERS
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment - Working Paper 501
Michael Clemens
January 31, 2019
‘Guest workers’ earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage gap can be used to measure gaps in the productivity of workers due to where they are, not who they are. This paper estimates the effects of guest work on Indian applicants to a construction job ...
Blog Post
10 Steps to Implementing the Global Compact for Migration through Global Skill Partnerships
Michael Clemens
and
Kate Gough
December 06, 2018
With proper design, Global Skill Partnerships offer governments a new tool—alongside the old, unilateral tools—to maximize the benefits of migration.
BRIEFS
A Tool to Implement the Global Compact for Migration: Ten Key Steps for Building Global Skill Partnerships
Michael Clemens
and
Kate Gough
December 04, 2018
The world needs better ways to manage international migration for this century. Those better ways finally have a roadmap: the Global Compact for Migration. And one promising tool is Global Skill Partnerships.
Blog Post
Policies, Outcomes, and Populism: The Integration of Migrants in Sweden
Lee Robinson
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Anita Käppeli
November 15, 2018
Sweden doesn’t seem to be immune to the Europe-wide trend of hostility to migration, as a significant 17.5 percent of the vote went to the Sweden Democrats, a populist, anti-immigration party. This is even more surprising given Sweden’s reputation for openness and successful in...
Blog Post
The U.S. Is Not Being Invaded: Fact-Checking the Common Immigration Myths
Michael Clemens
November 01, 2018
President Donald Trump gave a broad speech today on immigration and U.S. immigration and asylum policy. I review a few statements from the speech that are based on common immigration myths.
Blog Post
US Regional Security amid the Caravan Debate
Michael Clemens
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Kate Gough
October 24, 2018
If you’ve followed the news the last few days, you know that there is a migrant caravan approaching the US border, 7000-people strong. But who are these people, why have they left Central America, and what do they want once they cross the border?
BRIEFS
How Global Businesses Can Improve Refugee Labor Market Access—and Why They Should
October 09, 2018
Many of the world’s 25 million refugees spend years struggling to provide for themselves or contribute fully to their host economies because they are legally barred from working or owning businesses. Granting refugees formal labor market access unlocks a range of benefits—for refugees, h...