“...Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present...”

“...'Guest workers' earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial...”

“...Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest...”

“...We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the...”

“...What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor...”

“...Concern has intensified in recent years that many instrumental variables used in widely-cited growth regressions may be invalid, weak, or both. Attempts to...”

“...Why do workers earn so much more in the United States than in India? This study compares the earnings of workers in the two countries in a unique setting. The...”

“...An important class of active labor market policy has received little impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to raise wages and employment by...”

“...Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critique the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes...”