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The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream
Gaurav Khanna
and
Nicolas Morales
August 04, 2017
We study how US immigration policy and the Internet boom affected not just the US, but also led to a tech boom in India. Students and workers in India acquired computer science skills to join the rapidly growing US IT industry. As the number of US visas was capped, many remained in India, enabling t...
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The Economic Research Shows Drastic Cuts to Legal Immigration Are a Lose-Lose for the United States and the World
Michael Clemens
July 17, 2017
A report released recently suggests that two conservative senators are working on a plan to “dramatically scale back legal immigration,” reducing the one million immigrants who legally enter the country to about half that in ten years. Economic research time and again...
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How to Tackle the UK's Chronic Nursing Shortage—and Help Development
Caitlin McKee
and
Michael Anderson
June 29, 2017
What if there were a way to reduce the nursing shortage in the UK in a way that is good for the National Health Service (NHS), good for developing countries, and good for nurses?
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Labor Mobility and Wages of the Rich Country Poor, Part Two: Instruments to Targets
Lant Pritchett
June 29, 2017
Even if there were a robust and credible negative impact on wages of non-Hispanic male natives without a high school degree from low skill migrant arrivals (which there isn’t), this would not justify limiting immigration as there are better instruments to achieve the same objectives, with much...