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POLICY PAPERS
October 31, 2022
The US is looking for ways to stimulate economic development within, and expand legal migration pathways from, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. At the same time, US employers are struggling with shortages in key industries. A Global Skill Partnership between the US and El Salvador, Guatemala, o...
Blog Post
August 29, 2022
We know that climate change will alter migration patterns and increase movement in some places. But despite hundreds, if not thousands, of studies, we still don’t know who will move because of climate change, or precisely how or where. Part of that is a conceptual problem: what exactly is a ‘climate...
Blog Post
August 29, 2022
Datasets that have integrated migration and climate data are hard to come by. The Terrapops project, for example, provides extracts that include both migration data (built using national censuses) and climate data. These are useful, but variables in a single extract are often cataloged across differ...
POLICY PAPERS
June 06, 2022
Interest among high-income countries in using bespoke legal labor migration pathways to offset the negative impacts of aging populations and skills shortages has increased in the last decade. Even when migration is beneficial in the long-run, like all investments, these pathways incur up-font costs....
Blog Post
March 23, 2022
The United States was once a major haven for refugees fleeing violent persecution overseas. Today it is much diminished. The US severely restricted refugee resettlement beginning in 2017. Annual refugee arrivals plummeted by 86 percent by fiscal year 2020—almost all before the pandemic. It is a door...