Immigration reform

Immigration reform is the set of interventions aimed at improving immigration policy.

Caplan, Bryan (2022) Open borders as ultra-effective altruism, Bet On It, March 24.

BibliographyFurther reading

Several studies indicate that increased labor mobility could bring about large economic benefits worldwide, and fully open borders could bring gains of between 67% and 122% of world GDP (Clemens 2011)^[1] and dramatically reduce global poverty (Shulman 2014).^[2] Much of this increase would come via substantially increasing the wages of migrants from poorer countries, allowing them to earn more, and possibly sending remittances that will help their families or communities out of poverty.

Clemens, Michael A. (2011) Economics and emigration: Trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 25, pp. 83–106.
An attempt to estimate the economic losses caused by barriers to migration.

Shulman, Carl (2014) How migration liberalization might eliminate most absolute poverty, Reflective Disequilibrium, May 27.
A defence of the claim that the estimates about the effects of migration liberalization on absolute poverty is significantly more robust than the most extreme estimates of global output gains.

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   Clemens, Michael A. (2011) Economics and emigration: Trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 25, pp. 83–106.

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   Shulman, Carl (2014) How migration liberalization might eliminate most absolute poverty, Reflective Disequilibrium, May 27.

Caplan, Bryan & Vipul Naik (2015) A radical case for open borders, in Benjamin Powell (ed.) The Economics of Immigration, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 180–209.

economic growth | global poverty | open borders

Further readingBibliography

Clemens, Michael A. 2011.(2011) Economics and emigration: Trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk?
The journal, Journal of economic perspectives 25(3): 83-Economic Perspectives, vol. 25, pp. 83–106.
An attempt to estimate the economic losses caused by barriers to migration.

Open Borders.
A comprehensive repository of information about open borders.

Open Philanthropy Project.(2013) Labor mobility.mobility, Open Philanthropy, May.
OpenPhil's shallow investigation about labor mobility.

Pritchett, Lant. 2006. Lant (2006) Let their people come:Their People Come: Breaking the gridlockGridlock on global labor mobility.International Labor Mobility. Washington, DC:, Washington: Center for Global DevelopmentDevelopment.
A book-length examination of the economic effects of increased labor mobility.

Roodman, David. 2014.David (2014) The domestic economic impacts of immigration.immigration, David Roodman’s Blog, September 3.
A thorough overview of the evidence on the potential side effects of immigration.

Shulman, Carl. 2014.Carl (2014) How migration liberalization might eliminate most absolute poverty.poverty, Reflective Disequilibrium, May 27.
A defence of the claim that the estimates about the effects of migration liberalization on absolute poverty is significantly more robust than the most extreme estimates of global output gains.

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Open Borders. A comprehensive repository of information about open borders.

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economic growth | global poverty | open borders