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This Is It on Migration at Addis?

April 16, 2015
Lant recently blogged on the weak language on migration in the draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  If we want a just, equitable, and inclusive world, the most powerful tool at our disposal is migration. And yet the best the SDGs can do is call for countries to “facilita...
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Labor Mobility and Migration: The Missing Heart of the Sustainable Development Goals

April 09, 2015
Imagine you are a Guatemalan living and working in the United States without the proper documents.  Almost certainly (because it is legally required) there is a poster in the place where you work—most likely in English and Spanish—that “Equal Opportunity is the Law” and ...
WORKING PAPER

Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States - Working Paper 396

Davide Gandolfi et al.
March 11, 2015
Large wage differences between countries (“place premiums”) are well documented. Theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased migration, capital flows, and commercial integration.