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Inequality Decomposition without Income or Expenditure Data: Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income

Harttgen, Kenneth; Vollmer, Sebastian - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011

Commonly available survey data for developing countries often do not include income or expenditure data. This data limitation puts severe constraints on standard poverty and inequality analyses. We provide a simple approach to simulate household income based on publicly available Demographic and...

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Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development

Pineda, José Pineda and Francisco Rodríguez - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

This paper argues against a natural resource curse for human development. We find evidence that changes in human development from 1970 to 2005, proxied by changes in the Human Development Index, are positively and significantly correlated with natural resource abundance. While our results are...

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Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts

Alkire, Sabina - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010

The purpose of this background paper is: i) to synthesize the discussions regarding the concept of human development, so as to inform the 2010 Report’s definition, and ii) drawing on the extensive policy and academic literatures, to propose relationships between the concept of human...

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The Causes and Effects of International Labor Mobility: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations. First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it...

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Mobility and Human Development

de Haas, Hein - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human development. Migration can be considered as a fundamental capabilities-enhancing freedom itself. However, any meaningful understanding of migration needs to simultaneously analyse agency and structure....

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The EFFects of Immigration on the Scale and Composition of Demand: A study of California establishments

Mazzolari, Francesca; Numark, David - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

We study potential economic benefits of immigration stemming from two factors: first, that immigrants bring not only their labor supply with them, but also their consumption demands; and second, that immigrants may have a comparative advantage in the production of ethnic goods. Using data on the...

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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Clemens, Michael A. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing counties choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain”. This paper...

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Global Economic Prospects for Increasing Developing Country Migration into Developed Countries

van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique; Roland-Holst, David - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

destination countries, while lowering the relative return to capital. The first effect makes for higher real income, consumption …, and remittances for migrants of both types. For native populations in high income countries, the negative capital income … is more beneficial to migrants, who lack the capital income and thereby gain absolutely from rising relative wages. Of …

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Is There a Numbers vs. Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say

Cummins, Matthew; Rodriguez, Francisco - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

This paper explores the empirical support behind the idea that there is a trade-off between the size of the migrant population and the rights and entitlements enjoyed by immigrants. We first look at the empirical correlation between measures of migrants’ rights and the size of the stock of...

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Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in the United States

Massey, Douglas; Sánchez, Magaly Sánchez R. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

The United States is presently characterized by rising anti-immigrant sentiment, repressive immigration enforcement, and the negative framing of Latinos as threatening and undesirable. As a result, social boundaries between immigrants and natives have hardened and boundary crossing has become...

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