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WORKING PAPERS
May 15, 2014
Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to consider ...
POLICY PAPERS
May 02, 2014
Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of poli...
WORKING PAPERS
May 01, 2014
Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. In response, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified on grounds of efficiency—...
CGD in the News
March 27, 2014
“The unmistakable pattern is that, for countries below something like $6,000–8,000 GDP per capita (at US prices), countries that get richer have moreemigration,” [Michael Clemens] writes. “The threshold arrives at roughly the income per capita of Albania, Algeria, or El Salva...
Blog Post
March 24, 2014
Our most common intuition about migration and development is just as clear: more development must cause less migration. Won’t economic growth in, say, Haiti mean that fewer Haitians want to leave? This seems as plain as the sun crossing the sky, but the data simply do not support it.
Blog Post
March 17, 2014
CGD studies the ways that the richest countries affect the rest of the world, far beyond foreign aid. And the US massively shapes economic development in its neighbors to the south. The 2,000 mile border between the United States and Mexico is an economic cliff, the largest GDP per capita differenti...
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12:30—2:00 PM
March 17, 2014
Globally, migrant workers are often in visa arrangements that tie them to a particular employer, restricting job-to-job transitions and potentially lowering their earnings and efficiency in the labor market. Suresh Naidu will present a new paper, in which he and his co-authors exploit a 2011 reform ...
WORKING PAPERS
March 12, 2014
Basic economic theory suggests that as poor countries get richer, fewer people want to leave. This idea captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. But a long research literature and recent data suggest something very different: Over the course of a “mobility transition&r...