TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hanson,Gordon H.
TI  - The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14490
PY  - 2008
Y2  - November 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14490
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14490.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Gordon H. Hanson
IR/PS 0519
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA  92093-0519
Tel: 858/822-5087
Fax: 858/534-3939
E-Mail: gohanson@ucsd.edu
AB  - In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility.  I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves.  Were a social planner to choose the migration policies that would maximize global welfare, she would need to know, among other values, the elasticities of wages, prices, taxes, and government transfers with respect to national labor supplies, as well as how these parameters vary across countries.  My goal is to evaluate the progress of the literature in terms of providing these inputs.
ER  -