Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?

By Michael A. Clemens. 2011

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Human Capital Stock: a Generalized Approach (2014, unknown): “7 Hendricks (2002) and Clemens (2011) review the extant literature and conclude that immigrant selection Generalized Lower-Skill Services One may additionally consider more general approaches to measuring lower skill, depending on what kinds of workers are grouped as lower skill and how one…”
Global Collaborative Patents (2018, unknown): “We first describe the patent data set and the assignment of 2 Broad reviews of diaspora effects include Rauch (2001), Freeman (2006), Clemens (2009, 2011), Gibson and McKenzie (2011) and Docquier and Rapoport (2012).”
Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration (2017, background): “Moreover, the potential global productivity gains from greater labor mobility are extremely large (Clemens, 2011).”
Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment (2013, result): “(2011) estimate a yet higher elasticity of around 10 for the UK, whereas the estimates for Germany in D’Amuri et al. (2010) are lower with 3.”
Openness and income: The roles of trade and migration (2014, background): “This is likely to be particularly relevant for policies, because international migration remains highly regulated when compared to trade flows, implying large unrealized efficiency gains, as recently emphasized by Clemens (2011).”
Tradable Immigration Quotas (2014, unknown): “Substituting p with λ, it is easy to see that this solution would also solve equation (15).”
Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, unknown): “While some migration is sadly forced (e.g., refugees), much of immigration occurs when individuals seek opportunities (and much of the missing benefits of migration happen when these intentions are blocked, such as Clemens, 2011).”
Remittances and Vulnerability in Developing Countries (2014, result): “We do not find strong evidence of a positive response of remittances to natural disasters, in line with Lueth and Ruiz-Arranz (2008) but in contrast to other studies (Yang 2008; Mohapatra, Joseph, and Ratha 2012; Ebeke and Combes 2013). Again, remittances are not significantly affected by the outbre”
Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India (2019, background): “Specifically, I consider a model where households can borrow and save a risk-free asset (as in Deaton (1991); Aiyagari (1994); Huggett (1993)).”
Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks (2012, unknown): “The global market for labor has some of the largest distortions of any factor market (Clemens, 2011).”