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Title: Freedom of Movement for Workers: Relaxing Immigration Restrictions Could Greatly Improve the Well-Being of People in Developing countries, with little effect on wages.

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less developed countries, but with very limited success. A large body of evidence indicates that the root of the economic development problem is cross-country differences in the productivity of labor. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, the obvious way to help people in less developed countries is to allow them to help themselves by moving to places where they can be more productive. Yet immigration laws severely constrain such movement.

Url: http://wol.iza.org/articles/freedom-of-movement-for-workers.pdf

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Authors: Kennan, John

Publisher: IZA World of Labor

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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