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Title: A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration
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Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers haveproposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian regulations to raise efficiency by internalizingexternalities, and as non-Pigovian regulations grounded in equity or ethics. This paper challenges both sets of justifications, arguing that Pigovian regulations on skilledemigration are inefficient and non-Pigovian regulations are inequitable and unethical. It concludes by discussing a different class of policy intervention that, in contrast, has the potential to raise welfare.
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Authors: Clemens, Michael A.
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Publication Number: 363
Institution: Center for Global Development
Pages: 45
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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