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Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105625
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959810
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The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479248
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Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479307
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Split decisions: Family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291333
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The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270292
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Pathways for labor migration from Northern Central America: Five difficult but necessary proposals
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
Very few labor-based pathways for regular migration are available for people in Northern Central America, often called …-based migration channels in the region. It then argues that extending those channels is a necessary complement to asylum reform even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320013
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The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pritchett, Lant - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2010
premia observed under self-selected migration alone. Finally, we show that the policy induced portion of the place premium in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568530
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468120
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452382