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Global Skill Partnerships: a proposal for technical training in a mobile world

open access: yes, 2015
Skilled workers emigrate from developing countries in rising numbers, raising fears of a drain on the human and financial resources of the countries they leave.
Michael A. Clemens
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The analytics of the wage effect of immigration

open access: yes, 2009
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact depends on the elasticity of ...
G. Borjas
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Determinants of Workers' Remittances: Evidence from the European Neighbouring Region

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2006
Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial.
Ioana Schiopu, N. Siegfried
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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the USA in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance ...
Michael A. Clemens, Hannah M. Postel
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Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework

open access: yes, 2015
We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society.
G. Epstein, Odelia Heizler
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Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2015
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees ...
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source
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Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development

Social Science Research Network, 2022
When international migrant incomes improve, what are the consequences for global income (from international and domestic sources) in migrant-origin economies?
Gaurav Khanna   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Return migration and self-employment: is there a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ effect?

, 2021
With reference to Lazear’s Jack-of-all-Trades Hypothesis, I examine whether migrants are more likely to choose self-employment upon return because of the diverse work experience they gained abroad.
Clotilde Mahé
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Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility

The American Economic Review
International migrants may facilitate the transmission of ideas across countries. We examine the impact of migrant exposure to reproductive health policies on origin-country fertility in the Philippines.
S. Godlonton, C. Theoharides
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The Long-Run Effect of Migration on Firms’ Trade: Evidence from China

Social Science Research Network, 2022
We empirically assess the long-term effect of migration on the exporting behavior of firms in the migrants’ origin country. We focus on ethnic migrant networks formed as a result of a mass migration wave of ethnic Cantonese people from the province of ...
Anna Baiardi, C. Ammon
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