With a nod to Duncan Green - I asked Michael Clemens for some "killer facts" on migration after being invited to put some questions to a panel a few weeks ago. In the spirit of Adam Ozimek's call for more blogging on migration, I'm reposting them here.
- Economic gains to even modestly greater global migration flows are much larger than the total elimination of all policy barriers to trade and all barriers to capital flows (source).
- 82% of the Haitian-born who have left poverty have done so by leaving Haiti (at a PPP$10/day poverty line, i.e. 1/4 of median income for the bottom decile of UK incomes) (source).
- A Ghana-born, Ghana-educated semi-skilled construction worker earns at least six times the real living standard for doing exactly the same job in the US versus Ghana (source).
- A McDonalds worker can make up to 10 times as much in real terms doing exactly the same job in one country versus another country (source).
Which is your favourite fact?
5 comments:
I like the last two facts the best. They show that the value of labor is dependent on where and for whom labor produces, a killer fact itself.
Killer fact number 1 is the most impressive, no doubt!
Agree with your previous post that WDR 2013 goes easy on migration, and also with Kariobangi below - fact 1 is THE killer.
Here's another one to add to the list:
Internal migration within Ethopia can generate welfare gains of almost 300% (http://www.afd.fr/webdav/site/afd/shared/PORTAILS/RECHERCHE/evenements/Migrations-developpement-2012/Ethiopia_welfare_paper_PAAv2.pdf)
Woops...bad link:
http://www.afd.fr/webdav/site/afd/shared/PORTAILS/RECHERCHE/evenements/Migrations-developpement-2012/Ethiopia_welfare_paper_PAAv2.pdf
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