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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...

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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 countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...

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Diaspora externalities

Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development … diaspora, investigating the impact of emigration on the formation of political attitudes, fertility behavior, and other aspects …

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Global Evidence on Prospective Migrants from Developing Countries

Mendola, Mariapia - 2018

countries with different levels of development and show that cross-border migration intentions rise sharply with income when …

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Global Evidence on Prospective Migrants from Developing Countries

Mendola, Mariapia - 2018

countries with different levels of development and show that cross-border migration intentions rise sharply with income when …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910878

Migration and Globalization : What's in it for Developing Countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

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Development in Africa

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

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Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or … and review the evidence on these channels. The recent empirical literature shows that high-skill emigration need not … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …

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Book Review : Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

Cunningham-Parmeter, Keith - 2016

Two predictable narratives dominate today's immigration debate. One version of the story involves “illegal aliens” who enter the country without permission, take American jobs, drain public resources, and refuse to acculturate. The other description involves “undocumented immigrants” who...

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The Global Economic Impact of Open Borders

Smith, Nathanael - 2015

Open borders, in the sense of the abolition of policies restricting migration, would cause billions of people to migrate, and result in almost a doubling of world GDP. Based on a model that stresses human capital as a determinant of the wealth and poverty of nations, but which also has a spatial...

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