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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between …

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low …

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment

Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are … labor by a factor of four, implying large spatial inefficiency. Short-term effects on households were modest. Effects on …

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Efficiency properties of labor taxation in a spatial model of restricted labor mobility

Guggenberger, Patrik; Kaul, Ashok; Kolmar, Martin - 2001

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature … is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a … decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor can be compatible with marginal productivity differentials stemming from …

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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates

Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006

; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …

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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...

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Testing for repugnance in economic transactions : evidence from guest work in the Gulf

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...

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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...

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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …

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