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Some of these countries are either in conflict or are fragile states, so a diminishing flow of remittances will aggravate their instability, and perhaps increase the flow of migration to other countries.
Some economists have estimated that open labor migration would double the world’s GDP; even the most conservative assessments project an increase of 5-12% of GDP.
Despite some destination countries’ efforts to facilitate the migration of workers with particular skills, state-dictated screening methods cannot keep up with mutable labor markets.
Moreover, evidence demonstrates that migrants rarely displace native workers, and that any “brain drain” is often offset by gains from outward migration, including remittances.
In this case, the bond would be released to the worker, creating an incentive for return migration and cultivating “brain circulation” instead of brain drain.
A reversible-bond system would essentially eliminate the costs to governments of undesirable migration, while allowing them to reap the benefits of desirable migration.
It would ensure that labor markets’ actual needs, not rigid government policies, determined migration patterns, by enabling employers to choose who migrates.
Empirical studies of economic migration have long supported greater liberalization of immigration policies.
By eliminating the risks associated with labor migration, reversible bonds can unlock the international labor market and point the way to a more productive global economy.
Then, once the pseudo-rational economic justification for opposing labor migration is addressed, the prejudice that underlies it can be dealt with directly.
But the moral, legal, and diplomatic issues that arise in confronting Australia’s irregular migration problem are as complex – and the domestic politics as toxic – as anywhere else.
Incentives to make regular migration pathways work better will include immediately increasing Australia’s annual humanitarian intake, and doubling it over five years (to 27,000), while also doubling financial support for regional immigration capacity-building.
Again, evidence from migration tests this hypothesis.
An even better intervention addresses migration.
Easing restrictions on migration would allow young people from developing countries to expand industrialized economies’ diminishing workforces – and generate the taxes needed to pay for care for the elderly.
Such migration would also be good for the developing countries, because migrant workers send home remittances.
In total, every dollar spent on increased migration would produce more than $45 of social good – possibly more than $300.
While in today’s political climate, increasing migration might be difficult to achieve, it is worth pointing out how effectively it could help the world’s poorest.
Each of these proposals – full employment, cash transfers, broadband rollout, freer migration, and lower trade barriers – is covered by at least one of the UN’s 169 development targets.
And its disastrous outcome needs to be recalled in the light of Europe’s current migration crisis.
And yet Europe’s current proposals on migration leave much to be desired.
As a follow-up to the Eastern Partnership summit, the EU must initiate lower-level meetings of interior ministers to discuss migration, visas, and counter-terrorism, and should seek to integrate Ukraine and Moldova into the European energy market.
Unless a constructive course of political action is found in 2016, Puerto Rican migration to the 50 states will rival the scale of the 1930s Dust Bowl exodus from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other climate-devastated states.
In part, high levels of net migration reflect Puerto Rico’s badly frayed health-care system.
By raising the bargaining power of agricultural labor, the act’s passage has led to higher farm wages, greater purchasing power for the rural poor, and lower distress migration.
The bulk of this migration happened at a time of civil war or revolution.
Also, return migration is often an important source of new skills for a country.
Migration RealismGENEVA – The scenes of death and misery that are occurring with increasing frequency in the waters of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia have focused renewed attention on one of mankind’s oldest activities: migration.
That is why the international community must manage migration with understanding and compassion.
For many elected officials, migration poses a complex political dilemma: how to reconcile their citizens’ demands with the interests of migrants.
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