Publication
Aug 2011
Large numbers of people born in poor countries would like to leave those countries, but barriers prevent their emigration. Those barriers, according to economists’ best estimates to date, cost the world economy much more than all remaining barriers to the international movement of goods and capital combined. Yet economists spend much more time studying the movement of goods and capital, and when they study migration at all, they focus on the effects of immigration on nonmigrants in destination countries.
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Author | Michael Clemens |
Series | CGD Working Papers |
Issue | 264 |
Publisher | Center for Global Development (CGD) |
Copyright | © 2011 Center for Global Development (CGD) |