Michael Clemens
@m_clem
Professor of Economics at @GeorgeMasonU and Fellow at @PIIE. Also @IZA_bonn, @CReAM_Research, & @CGDev. Personal views only.
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Important new paper by Alessandro Caiumi & Giovanni Peri
During 2000-2019, #immigrants in the US had a positive & significant effect (+1.7 to +2.6) on the #wages of less educated native workers & a positive effect on #employment
Policies expanding access to lawful crossing can serve as a partial but substantial deterrent to unlawful crossing & expanding access can serve as an important tool for more secure & regulated borders. By Michael Clemens: piie.com/publications/w…
In this post, I discuss my George Mason University colleague Michael Clemens's important new research showing how making legal migration easier, can greatly reduce illegal border crossing. Michael is one of the world's leading immigration economists. reason.com/volokh/2024/04…
As Michael Clemens has documented, there ARE jobs that farmers/ranchers and others simply can't get American labor for, and that need immigrants. When employers win the H-2B lottery, they end up hiring MORE, not fewer, Americans, than those who lose the lottery.
nber.org/papers/w30589
I've been working for a year to measure, for the first time, the effect of lawful crossings of the US Southwest border on unlawful crossings.
My study just came out at Peterson Institute —> piie.com/publications/w…
With a less technical summary —> piie.com/blogs/realtime…
Policies expanding access to lawful crossing can serve as a partial but substantial deterrent to unlawful crossing & expanding access can serve as an important tool for more secure & regulated borders. By Michael Clemens: piie.com/publications/w…
The place premium is huge.
In an LMIC context, this should make u care about labor mobility (a la Lant Pritchett, Michael Clemens & others).
It should also make u care about LMIC urbanization. As cities are basically pockets of high-productivity in otherwise low-prod places.…
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See below for praise from David Card Adam Grant Guido Imbens Richard Florida Luis von Ahn & Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Critical, rigorous study by Michael Clemens:
“…offering more lawful pathways to cross the border significantly decreases the rate of unlawful crossings, with this deterrent effect growing stronger over time…Policy that expands lawful crossings has tended to deter unlawful crossings.”
New research by Michael Clemens finds that policies expanding access to lawful crossing can serve as a partial but substantial deterrent to unlawful crossing & expanding access can serve as an important tool for more secure & regulated borders. piie.com/publications/w…
From the brilliant Michael Clemens:
At the US-Mexico border, an uptick in lawful immigration pathways
=> fewer unlawful entries in following months
piie.com/blogs/realtime…
To host refugees is, precisely for OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives_Stat countries, an investment with return. Yet they count it as aid.
Here's research on actual impact by
Hippolyte d'Albis Ekrame Boubtane Meredith Dost et al,
Michael Clemens
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
aspe.hhs.gov/reports/fiscal…
iza.org/publications/d…
My coauthors & I are recruiting a summer research assistant for an experiment on the promise of remote work for refugees. Please share w/ potential candidates 🙏 Main reqs are Stata, SurveyCTO, & good management/communication skills #EconTwitter
drive.google.com/file/d/1MBr90g…
