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Moving for prosperity : global migration and labor markets.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank,
[2018]
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| Colección: | World Bank policy research report.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Team; Abbreviations; Overview; The patterns of global migration: Scale; The patterns of global migration: Concentration; The determinants of migration; The short-term impact of immigration: Labor markets; Addressing short-term costs: Assistance and adjustment policies; The long-term impact: Immigrant integration and assimilation; High-skilled migration, agglomeration, and brain drain; International coordination of migration policy; Final thoughts; Notes; References; Chapter One Patterns of Global Migration; Overall migration patterns.
- The concentration of economic migrantsInternal migration; Refugees; Migrant demographics; Notes; References; Chapter Two The Economic Drivers of Migration Decisions; Why migrate? The benefits of migrating; Why migrate? The costs of migrating; Why migrate? A cost-benefit analysis; Who chooses to migrate? Skill composition and the selection of migrants; ANNEX 2A Gravity models; Notes; References; Chapter Three The Wage and Employment Impacts of Migration; Conceptual issues: The factor proportions approach; Empirical challenges: Immigrants and natives choose where to live and work.
- Measurement challenges: Skill "downgrading" and the undocumentedEmpirical strategy I: The national skill cell approach; Empirical strategy II: The local labor market approach; Empirical strategy III: Natural experiments; Emigration and labor markets; ANNEX 3A Methodological challenges in the immigration literature; Notes; References; Chapter Four Longer-Term Dynamics: Immigrant Economic Adjustment and Native Responses; Economic integration of immigrants and refugees; Return and onward migration; Native responses to immigration; Notes; References; Chapter Five High-Skilled Migration.
- Defining a high-skilled migrantPatterns of high-skilled migration; Determinants of high-skilled migration patterns; Impact of high-skilled migration on origin countries; Effects of skilled migration on destination countries; High-skilled migration policies; Note; References; Appendix Migration Data; Boxes; Box 1.1 Potential migrants and the desire to move; Box 3.1 Refugee camps and their impact on host countries; Box 4.1 Migration's impact on the education of children left behind; Figure; Figure O.1 Global migrants constitute a stable share of world population.
- Figure O.2 Global refugee numbers have grown in recent years but are a small share of migrants and an insignificant share of world populationFigure O.3 Disproportionately large numbers of migrants move to a few rich countries; Figure O.4 Immigration has remained concentrated while emigration is becoming more dispersed; Figure O.5 Refugee flows are more concentrated than overall migration; Figure O.6 Wage differences drive bilateral migration; Figure O.7 Wage gains of Tongan migrants to New Zealand are large and permanent.