International Migration and Economic Development

By Robert E. Lucas. 2005

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Contents: Part I: Introduction 1. The Context 2. The Determinants of Migration: Controls, Pressures and Outcomes Part II: Consequences for Economic Development in the Countries of Origin 3. Labor Market Responses to Emigration 4. Emigration of the Highly Skilled: Regimes, Costs and Responses 5. Reported and Informal Remittances: How Much? Who Sends? Who Benefits? 6. The Diaspora and Transnational Networks 7. Repeat and Return Migration: A Habit or 'There and Back Again' 8. Poverty, Inequality and the Social Impacts of Migration Part III: Conclusions: Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Migrations Regimes 9. Who Benefits from International Migration? Beyond Economic Development at Origin 10. Migration Regimes and Economic Development: Policy Implications References Index

Subfields: Development, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Migrant Networks and Foreign Direct Investment (2006, unknown): “Finally, population density has been shown to be an important push factor stimulating emigration as argued by Lucas (2005).”
• Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment (2018, unknown): “Doubts persist however as to whether trading partners’ cultural affinity or else bilateral economic policies might be driving the observed positive correlations (Lucas, 2005; Hanson, 2010).”
• Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Poverty: Evidence from Pakistan (2008, background): “Lucas (2005)1 argues that remittances probably contributed in a significant way to poverty alleviation process in case of Pakistan.”
• Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues (2011, background): “Recruitment companies account often for the majority of the cost of migrating, especially when it comes to low-skilled migrants (Lucas 2005, p. 278) that can leave the migrant in debt, lower wages than promised, long hours and unsafe working conditions (see e.g. Chammartin 2005).”
• The potential of temporary migration programmes in future international migration policy (2006, unknown): “Furthermore, it is widely agreed that the various impacts of emigration can 44 For recent reviews, see Lucas (2005), Martin (2004), Commander, Kangasniemi, and Winters (2004), the House of Commons International Development Committee (2004), Ellerman (2003), and Van Hear and Sorensen (2003). involve…”