Authors:

  • Lant Pritchett

Excerpt

The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment. Lant Pritchett, February 2016, Paper. "For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably redistributive, but in fact globally efficient. This is the new economic case for migration restrictions." Link