The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

Gordon Hanson

Annual Review of Economics, 2009, vol. 1, issue 1, 179-208

Abstract: In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies that would maximize global welfare, she would need to know, among other values, the elasticities of wages, prices, taxes, and government transfers with respect to national labor supplies as well as how these parameters vary across countries. My goal is to evaluate the progress of the literature in terms of providing these inputs.

Keywords: immigration; emigration; brain drain; globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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