direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

wide range of benefits that international migration brings to global development. Main aim of the paper is to provide an … institutional development and finds that the impact is particularly strong for emigrant-sending countries with medium institutional …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …

immigration to help fight these tendencies, immigration levels in Japan are comparatively much lower. Increasing immigration to … immigration in Japan is surprisingly rare. Rather, public opposition to immigration is often unquestioningly taken as a given …Japan, like most of the developed world, faces potentially extreme demographic shortfalls brought on by a rapidly aging …