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Global Economic Prospects 2006

This bibliography is taken from the Global Economic Prospects 2006 Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration.

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Chapter 1

  • Beccue, Phillip C., and Hillard G. Huntington. 2005. "An Assessment of Oil Market Disruption Risks," In Final Report EMF SR 8. Energy Modeling Forum. October.
  • Benjamin, J.D., P. Chinloy, and G.D. Jud. 2004. "Real Estate versus Financial Wealth in Consumption." Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 29(3):341-54.
  • Catte, P., N. Girouard, R. Price, and C. André. 2004. "Housing Markets, Wealth and the Business Cycle." Economics Department Working Paper 394. OECD, Paris.
  • Congressional Budget Office. 2005. "Macroeconomic and Budgetary Effects of Hurricane Katrina." Report. September 6. Washington, DC.
  • Huntington, Hillard G. 2005. "The Economic Consequences of Higher Crude Oil Prices." In Final Report EMF SR 9. Energy Modeling Forum, October.
  • International Energy Agency. 2004. World Energy Outlook. Paris.
  • IMF (International Monetary Fund). 2005. World Economic Outlook. Washington, DC.
  • OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2004. Economic Outlook, no. 74. Paris.
  • World Bank. 2005. Global Development Finance 2005. Washington, DC.

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Chapter 2

  • Alesina, Alberto, and Eliana La Ferrara. 2004. “Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance.” Centro Studi Luca D’Agliano Development Studies Working Papers 193. Milan and Turin. December.
  • Anderson, Kym, Will Martin, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe. 2005. “Market and Welfare Implications of Doha Reform Scenarios.” In Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda, ed. Kym Anderson and Will Martin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Angrist, Joshua, and Adriana Kugler. 2002. “Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labour Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives.” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 3196. London.
  • Auerbach, Alan J., and Philip Oreopoulos. 1999. “Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 89(2): 176–80.
  • Bchir, Mohamed Hedi, Yvan Decreux, Jean-Louis Guérin, and Sébastien Jean. 2002. “MIRAGE, a Computable General Equilibrium Model for Trade Policy Analysis.” CEPII Working Paper 2002-17. Paris. December.
  • Bonin, Holger, Bernd Raffelhuschen, and Jan Walliser. 2000. “Can Immigration Alleviate the Demographic Burden?” Finanz Archiv 57(1): 1–21.
  • Borjas, George J. 1994. “The Economics of Immigration”, Journal of Economic Literature 32. December (1994): 1667–1717.
  • ———. 2003a. “The Labor Demand Curve IS Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market.” Quarterly Journal of Economics. November.
  • ———. 2003b. “The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States: Lessons for Policy.” WIDER Discussion Paper DP2003/78. World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Helskinki. December.
  • Borjas, George, Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence Katz. 1997. “How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes?” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1: 1–90.
  • Butcher, Kristin F. and David Card. 1991. “Immigration and Wages—Evidence from the 1980s.” American Economic Review 81(2): 292–6.
  • Card, David. 1989. “The Impact of the Mariel Boat Lift on the Miami Labor Market.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 3069. Cambridge, MA.
  • ———. 2001. “Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration.” Journal of Labor Economics 19:22–64.
  • Carrington, W., and P. de Lima. 1996. “The Impact of 1970s Repatriates from Africa on the Portuguese Labor Market.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49(2): 330–47.
  • Collado, M. Dolores, Inigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe, and Guadalupe Valera. 2004. “Quantifying the Impact of Immigration on the Spanish Welfare State.” International Tax and Public Finance 11:335–53.
  • Coppel, Jonathan, Jean-Christophe Dumont, and Ignazio Visco. 2001. “Trends in Immigration and Economic Consequences.” Economics Department Working Paper 284. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris.

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  • Davis, Donald R., and David E. Weinstein. 2002. “Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 8971. Cambridge, MA.
  • DeNew, John P., and Klaus F. Zimmermann. 1994. Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labor. Journal of Population Economics 7: 177–92.
  • Dustmann, Christian, and Albrecht Glitz. 2005. “Immigration, Jobs and Wages: Theory, Evidence and Opinion.” Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, Department of Economics, University College London.
  • Dustmann, Christian, Francesca Fabbri, Ian Preston, and Jonathan Wadsworth. 2003. “The Local Labour Market Effects of Immigration in the UK.” Home Office Online Report 06/03. London.
  • EU (European Union). 2005. “Green Paper on an EU Approach to Managing Economic Migration.” COM(2004)811 final, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels. November.
  • Fehr, Hans, Sabine Jokisch, and Laurence Kotlikoff. 2004. “The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World’s Demographic Transition.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 10512. Cambridge, MA.
  • Florida, Richard. 2002. “Bohemia and Economic Geography.” Journal of Economic Geography 2:55–71.
  • Glasser, Edward L., Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz. 2001. “Consumer City.” Journal of Economic Geography 1: 27–50.
  • Gott, Ceri, and Karl Johnston. 2002. “The Migrant Population in the UK: Fiscal Effects.” RDS Occasional Paper 77. Home Office, London.
  • Gross, Dominique. 1999. “Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed: Immigration and the French Labor Market.” IMF Staff Working Paper 99/124. International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC.
  • Gustafsson, B., and T. Osterberg. 2001. “Immigrants and the Public Sector Budget: Accounting Exercises for Sweden.” Journal of Population Economics 14(4): 689–708.
  • Gustmann, Alan L., and Thomas L. Steinmeier. 1998. “Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 6478. Cambridge, MA.
  • Hamilton, Bob, and John Whalley. 1984. “Efficiency and Distributional Implications of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility.” Journal of Development Economics 14: 61–75.
  • Hunt, Jennifer. 1992. “The Impact of the 1962 Repatriates from Algeria on the French Labor Market.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45: 556–72. April.
  • IOM (International Organization for Migration). 2005. World Migration 2005. Geneva.
    Jaeger, David A. 1996. “Local Labor Markets, Admission Categories, and Immigrant Location Choice.” Unpublished paper. Hunter College, New York. June.

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  • LaLonde, Robert J., and Robert H. Topel. 1997. “Economic Impact of International Migration and the Economic Performance of Migrants.” In Handbook of Population and Family Economics, ed. Mark Rosenzweig and Oded Stark. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
  • Lee, Ronald, and Timothy Miller. 2000. “Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 90(2): 350–54.
  • Longhi, Simonetta, Peter Nijkamp, and Jacques Poot. 2004. “A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages.” Population Studies Centre Discussion Papers 47. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. December.
  • Massey, Douglas. 2000. “Higher Education and Social Mobility in the United States, 1940–1998.” Paper delivered at Association of American Universities Centennial Meeting, April 17, Washington, DC.
  • Mora, Jorge, and J. Edward Taylor. 2005. “Determinants of Migration, Destination and Sector Choice: Disentangling Individual, Household and Community Effects.” In International Migration, Remittances, and Development, ed. Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff, Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • Moses, Jonathon W., and Bjørn Letnes. 2004. “The Economic Costs to International Labor Restrictions: Revisiting the Empirical Discussion.” World Development 32(10): 1609–26.
  • Nana, Ganesh, and Julian Williams. 1999. “Fiscal Impacts of Migrants to New Zealand.” Report to the New Zealand Immigration Service, Auckland.
  • Ottaviano, Gianmarco, and Giovanni Peri. 2004. “The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 10904. Cambridge, MA.
  • OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 1997. Trends in International Migration. Paris.
  • ———. 2005. Trends in International Migration. Paris.
  • Parsons, Christopher R., Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley, and L. Alan Winters. 2005. “Quantifying the International Bilateral Movements of Migrants.” Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, June 9–11, Lübeck, Germany.
  • Passel, Jeffrey S. 2005. “Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population.” Pew Hispanic Center, Washington, DC.
  • Piore, Michael J. 1986. “Perspectives on Labor Market Flexibility.” Industrial Relations 25: 146–66. Spring.
  • Pischke, Jorn-Steffen, and Johannes Velling. 1994. “Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: An Analysis Based on Local Labor Markets.” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 935. London. March.
  • Poot, Jacques, and Bill Cochrane. 2004. “Measuring the Economic Impact of Immigration: A Scoping Paper.” Immigration Research Programme, New Zealand Immigration Service, Auckland. December.
  • Rowthorn, Robert. 2004. “The Economic Impact of Immigration.” Civitas Online Report. Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society, London.

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  • Schiff, Maurice. 1998. “Trade, Migration and Welfare: The Impact of Social Capital.” In H. Singer, N. Hatti, and R. Tandon (eds.) Globalization, Technology, and Trade in the 21st Century. Vol. 19, New World Order, Delhi: B. R. Publishing.
  • Smith, James P., and Barry Edmonston. 1997. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
  • Sriskandarajah, Dhananjayan, Laurence Cooley, and Howard Reed. 2005. “Paying Their Way: The Fiscal Contribution of Immigrants in the UK.” Institute for Public Policy Research, London.
  • Storesletten, Kjetil. 2000. “Sustaining Fiscal Policy through Immigration.” Journal of Political Economy 108(21).
  • Timmer, Hans, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe. 2005. “Migration, PPP and the Money Metric of Welfare Gains.” Development Economics Department, World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. 1997. Binational Study: Migration Between Mexico and the United States.
  • U.S. Labor Survey. 2005. Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://bls.gov/cps/home.htm.
  • van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique. 2005a. “LINKAGE Technical Reference Document: Version 6.0.” Unpublished paper. World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • ———. 2005b. “Derivation of Output and Wage Elasticities Relative to an Increase in Migrants.” Development Economics Department, World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • Walmsley, Terrie L., S. Amer Ahmed, and Christopher R. Parsons. 2005. “The GMig2 Data Base: A Data Base of Bilateral Labor Migration, Wages and Remittances.” GTAP Research Memorandum No. 6. Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University. September.
  • Walmsley, Terrie Louise, and L. Alan Winters. 2003. “Relaxing the Restrictions on the Temporary Movements of Natural Persons: A Simulation Analysis.” Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series 3719. London. January.
  • Wickramasekera, Piyasiri. 2002. “Asian Labor Migration: Issues and Challenges in an Era of Globalization.” International Labor Office, International Migration Program. Geneva.
  • Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, and Josef Zweimuller. 1999. “Do Immigrants Displace Young Native Workers: The Austrian Experience.” Journal of Population Economics 12: 327–40.

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Chapter 3

  • Abella, M. 1997. Sending Workers Abroad: A Manual for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Geneva: International Labour Office.
  • ———. 2004. “The Role of Recruiters in Labor Migration.” In International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market, ed. Douglas S. Massey and J. Edward Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Adams, Richard. 2004. “Remittances and Poverty in Guatemala.” Policy Research Working Paper 3418. World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • ———. 2005. “Remittances and Poverty in Ghana.” Mimeograph. World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • Adams, Richard, and John Page. 2003. “International Migration, Remittances, and Poverty in Developing Countries.” Policy Research Working Paper 3179. World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • Afsar, Rita. 2003. “Internal Migration and the Development Nexus: The Case of Bangladesh.” Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka.
  • ———. 2005. “Internal Migration and Pro-Poor Policy.” In Migration, Development, and Poverty Reduction in Asia, ed. Gervais Appave and Frank Laczko. Geneva: International Organization for Migration.
  • Agrawal, Ajay, Iain Cockburn, and John McHale. 2003. “Gone But Not Forgotten: Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital.” Working Paper 9950. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
  • Aleinikoff, T. A., and Klusmeyer, D. 2002. Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Barré, Rémi, Valéria Hernandez, Jean-Baptiste Meyer, and Dominique Vinck. 2003. Diasporas scientifiques: Comment les pays en développement peuvent-ils tirer parti de leurs chercheurs et de leurs ingénieurs? (Scientific diasporas: how can developing countries benefit from their expatriate scientists and engineers?) Paris: IRD Editions.
  • Barro, R., and J. W. Lee. 2000. “International Data on Educational Attainments—Updates and Implications.” Working Paper 7911. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
  • Bartel, A. P. 1989. “Where Do the New U.S. Immigrants Live?” Journal of Labor Economics 7(4):371–91.
  • Battistella, Graziano, and Ma. Cecilia G. Conaco. 1996. “Impact of Migration on the Children Left Behind.” Asian Migrant 9(3): 86–91.
  • Beine, Michel, Frederic Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport. 2001. “Brain Drain and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence.” Journal of Development Economics 64: 275–89.
  • Bhagwati, Jagdish. 1976. “The Brain Drain.” International Social Science Journal 28: 691–729.
  • Black, R., 2004. “Migration and Pro-Poor Policy in Africa.” Working Paper C6. Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.
  • Black, Richard, Savinna Ammassari, Shannon Mouillesseaux, and Radha Rajkotia. 2004. “Migration and Pro Poor Policy in West Africa.” Working Paper C8. Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.
  • Borjas, George. J. 1987. “Self-Selection and Earnings of Immigrants.” American Economic Review 77(4): 531–53.
  • Borjas, George J., and Bernt Bratsberg. 1994. “Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign Born.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 4913. Cambridge, MA.
  • Brown, Mercy. 2000. “Using the Intellectual Diaspora to Reverse the Brain Drain: Some Useful Examples.” Paper presented at the Regional Conference on Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa. Addis Ababa, February 22–24.
  • Bryant, John. 2005. “Children of International Migrants in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines: A Review of Evidence and Policies.” Working Paper 2005-05. UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, Florence.
  • Carter, Thomas J. 1999. “Illegal Immigration in an Efficiency Wage Model.” Journal of International Economics 49: 385–401.
  • Cervantes, M., and D. Guellec. 2002. “The Brain Drain: Old Myths, New Realities.” OECD Observer, May 7.
  • Chanda, Rupa. 2001. “Trade in Health Services.” Paper prepared for the Working Group on Health and International Economy of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva.
  • Chau, Nancy H., and Oded Stark. 1999. “Migration under Asymmetric Information and Human Capital Formation.” Review of International Economics 7(3): 455–83.
  • Chellaraj, Gnanaraj, Keith Maskus, and Aaditya Mattoo. 2005. “The Contribution of Skilled Immigration and International Graduate Students to U.S. Innovation.” In International Migration, Remittances, and Development, ed. Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff. Washington, DC: World Bank.
  • Chiswick, Barry R. 1988. “Illegal Immigration and Immigration Control.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 2(3): 101–15.
  • ———. 2000. “The Economics of Illegal Migration for the Host Economy.” Paper presented at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting. September.
  • Clemens, Michael. 2005. “Do No Harm—Is the Emigration of Health Professionals Bad for Africa?” Prepared for the G-20 Workshop on Demographic Challenges and Migration. Sydney, Australia, August.
  • Commonwealth Secretariat. 2005. “A Managed Migration Program for Teachers and Nurses.” London.
  • Constant, Amelie, and Douglas S. Massey. 2003. “Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany.” Population Economics 16: 631–53. November.
  • Cornelius, Wayne A. 2001. “Death at the Border: The Efficacy and ‘Unintended’ Consequences of U.S. Immigration Control Policy, 1993–2000.” Working Paper 27, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California–San Diego.
  • Daveri, Francesco, and Riccardo Faini. 1999. “Where Do Migrants Go?” Oxford Economic Papers 51:595–622. oep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/4/595.
  • De Coulon, Augustin, and Matloob Piracha. 2002. “Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: The Case of Albania.” Discussion Paper 0211. Department of Economics, University of Kent, Canterbury.
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  • Desai, Mihir A., Devesh Kapur, and John McHale. 2001. “The Fiscal Impact of the Brain Drain: Indian Emigration to the U.S.” Prepared for the Third Annual NBER-NCAER conference, December 17–18. Harvard University and National Bureau for Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
  • Diminescu, Dana. 2004. “Assessment and Evaluation of Bilateral Labour Agreements Signed by Romania.” In Migration for Employment: Bilateral Agreements at a Crossroads. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  • Docquier, Frederic, and Abdeslam Marfouk. 2004. “Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990–2000).” Policy Research Working Paper 3381. Development Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • Docquier, Frederic, and Hillel Rapoport. 2004. “Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries.” Policy Research Working Paper 3382. Development Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC.
  • Drinkwater, Stephen, Paul Levine, Emanuela Lotti, and Joseph Pearlman. 2002. “The Economic Impact of Migration: A Survey.” Paper prepared for Second Workshop of the Fifth Framework Programme Project, “European Enlargement: The Impact of East-West Migration on Growth and Employment,” December 6–7, Vienna.

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  • Edin, Per-Anders, Robert J. LaLonde, and Olof Åslund. 2000. “Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from Sweden.” Swedish Economic Policy Review 7: 163–204. Fall.
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  • Ellerman, David. 2003. “Policy Research on Migration and Development.” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3117. Washington, DC.
  • Faini, Riccardo. 2005. “Does the Brain Drain Boost Growth?” Research Program on International Migration and Development. DECRG. Mimeo. World Bank. Washington, DC.
  • Freeman, Richard B., and Remco H. Oostendorp. 2000. “Wages Around the World: Pay across Occupations and Countries.” Working Paper 8058. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
  • Gazdar, Haris. 2003, “A Review of Migration Issues in Pakistan.” Paper presented at the Regional Conference on Migration, Development and Pro-Poor Choices in Asia, June 22–24, Dhaka.
  • Gevorkyan, Alexandr V., and David A. Grigorian. 2003. “Armenia and Its Diaspora: Is There Scope for a Stronger Economic Link?” Armenian Forum 3(2): 1–35.
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  • Gubert, Flore. 2005. “Migrant Remittances and Their Impact on the Economic Development of Sending Countries: The Case of Africa.” Paper presented at OECD International Conference on Migration, Remittances, and the Economic Development of Sending Countries, February 23–25, Marrakech.
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  • Hatton, Timothy J., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2002. “What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?” Discussion Paper 3559. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.
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