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POLICY PAPER

Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships
Michael Clemens et al.
July 15, 2019
Germany is one country piloting and implementing projects that can help alleviate such demographic pressures and maximize the potential mutual benefits of legal labor migration.
Blog Post

CGD and RI Launch New Initiative to Expand Formal Labor Market Access for Refugees
Cindy Huang
and
Jimmy Graham
June 20, 2019
On World Refugee Day this year, we are excited to note recent successes—in particular, the expansion of formal labor market access (FLMA) for refugees.
Blog Post

Tom Standage on Sounds Robotic: A CGD Podcast
Charles Kenny
March 06, 2019
In this episode of Sounds Robotic, we discuss the potential upsides of AI and automation as well as the "lump of labor" fallacy as applied to robots.
WORKING PAPER

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 ...