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Kennan, John

doi:10.1016/j.red.2012.08.003

Cited by 79 publications

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“…Doing so points to large misallocation of human capital during the sample period, in the range of 40 to 50 percent of global output, with an upward trend over time. Our findings resemble those in Klein and Ventura (2009) and Kennan (2013), using different models, countries, and data. This basic benchmark abstracts from the barriers to reallocating human capital (workers) across countries, which can be very stringent.…”

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Should Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Monge‐Naranjo

Sánchez

Santaeulàlia-Llopis

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 80%

Should Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Monge‐Naranjo

Sánchez

Santaeulàlia-Llopis

et al. 2019

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“…In the end, they calculate that liberalizing global migration could generate an approximate doubling of world GDP. John Kennan (whose Canadian connection is that he started his career at McMaster) uses the calibration methodology but incorporates insights from trade theory (Kennan 2013). In particular, he works with a model with two goods, two factors of production (capital and labour), J countries and a CES production function.…”

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Canadian economics research on immigration through the lens of theories of justice

Green

Worswick

2017

Canadian J of Economics

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We assess the current state of knowledge in the economics of immigration and consider how economic theories of knowledge can be used to further the goal of developing a just immigration policy. In the process, we highlight the contributions of economists working in Canada and Canadian economists internationally in furthering our understanding of this important research area. We identify research gaps such as the need for more research on the underlying causes of the poor returns to foreign work experience for immigrants from non‐traditional source countries and the effect of immigrants on stimulating innovation. More research is also needed on the implications of temporary foreign worker (TFW) programs and the growing importance of employers in immigrant selection systems.

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“…Hamilton and Whalley (), Klein and Ventura (, ), Benhabib and Jovanovic (), and Docquier, Machado, and Sekkat () develop analyses of this type in one‐sector models without international trade. Davis and Weinstein () and Kennan () investigate the welfare effects of migration in the presence of labor‐augmenting productivity differences in Ricardian and Heckscher–Ohlin models of trade, respectively. The key consequence of employing a neoclassical framework is that immigration always weakly reduces the welfare of the native workers (i.e., suppliers of the labor input) in the receiving countries.…”

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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

Giovanni

Levchenko

Ortega

2014

Journal of the European Economic Association

124

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This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi‐sector model of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm‐level data. Our framework features cross‐country labor productivity differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of migration to a no‐migration counterfactual. In the long run, natives in countries that received a lot of migration—such as Canada or Australia—are better off due to greater product variety available in consumption and as intermediate inputs. In the short run, the impact of migration on average welfare in these countries is close to zero, while the skilled and unskilled natives tend to experience welfare changes of opposite signs. The remaining natives in countries with large emigration flows—such as Jamaica or El Salvador—are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5% to 10% for the main receiving countries and about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances.

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Open borders

Cited by 79 publications

References 17 publications

Should Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Should Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Canadian economics research on immigration through the lens of theories of justice

A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

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