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How the American Dream Led to India’s IT Boom
Gaurav Khanna
and
Nicolas Morales
June 01, 2017
In our research (a draft of which is available here: Khanna and Morales 2017) we show that the H-1B visa programme had a powerful impact on the US IT sector, and played a prominent role in spreading the boom to India.
POLICY PAPER

Investing UK Aid in a Global Skills Partnership: Better Health at Home and Abroad
Michael Anderson et al.
May 31, 2017
 A Global Skills Partnership combines training funded by donors with pre-agreed arrangements for qualified graduates to work temporarily overseas, usually in the donor country. This paper shows through one hypothetical example how a GSP for a specific sector (nursing) financed by a specific don...
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What Economists Can Learn from the Mariel Boatlift, Part Two: Answering Questions about Our Research

Michael Clemens
May 30, 2017
Last week I blogged about a research discovery. An influential study had found that a 1980 wave of Cuban refugees into Miami, known as the Mariel Boatlift, had caused the wages of workers there to fall dramatically. In a new paper co-released by CGD and the Nationa...
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What the Mariel Boatlift of Cuban Refugees Can Teach Us about the Economics of Immigration: An Explainer and a Revelation
Michael Clemens
May 22, 2017
Do immigrants from poor countries hurt native workers? A study by an influential immigration economist at Harvard University recently found that a famous flood of Cuban immigrants into Miami dramatically reduced the wages of native workers. But there’s a problem. The Borjas stud...