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Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP): Helping Connect International Labor Markets
Rebekah Smith
April 25, 2019
If more legal channels for labor mobility were opened,  the incomes of developing country citizens could increase fourfold while global GDP could as much as double. These potential gains make labor mobility one of the most powerful tools for poverty alleviation currently on the current developm...
WORKING PAPERS
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment - Working Paper 501
Michael Clemens
January 31, 2019
‘Guest workers’ earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage gap can be used to measure gaps in the productivity of workers due to where they are, not who they are. This paper estimates the effects of guest work on Indian applicants to a construction job ...
Blog Post
10 Steps to Implementing the Global Compact for Migration through Global Skill Partnerships
Michael Clemens
and
Kate Gough
December 06, 2018
With proper design, Global Skill Partnerships offer governments a new tool—alongside the old, unilateral tools—to maximize the benefits of migration.
BRIEFS
A Tool to Implement the Global Compact for Migration: Ten Key Steps for Building Global Skill Partnerships
Michael Clemens
and
Kate Gough
December 04, 2018
The world needs better ways to manage international migration for this century. Those better ways finally have a roadmap: the Global Compact for Migration. And one promising tool is Global Skill Partnerships.
BRIEFS
How Global Businesses Can Improve Refugee Labor Market Access—and Why They Should
October 09, 2018
Many of the world’s 25 million refugees spend years struggling to provide for themselves or contribute fully to their host economies because they are legally barred from working or owning businesses. Granting refugees formal labor market access unlocks a range of benefits—for refugees, h...
WORKING PAPERS
The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access - Working Paper 496
Michael Clemens et al.
October 09, 2018
There are over 25 million refugees in the world today and most of them—especially those in developing countries—do not have formal labor market access (LMA). Granting refugees formal LMA has the potential to create substantial benefits for refugees and their hosts.
BRIEFS
The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access (Brief)
Michael Clemens et al.
October 09, 2018
Refugees can be immense economic contributors to the host communities where they settle, but to maximize their contributions, refugees need formal labor market access.