Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar
Forward Thinking
The Effect of Migration on Productivity
Is one reason for the productivity boost that migrants move from low productivity to high productivity locations? Well, that's a great question. And we as economists are very obsessed with causality versus correlation. So in those studies that you're mentioning, we do a great deal of work to try to convince a reader that it's not that they're following up the former but actually moving the know-how. But overall, I think it's a good example of how we are actually trying to deal with the first one.
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