全球化中的人口流动

People Flows in Globalization

Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2006
被引 14
人大 A-ABS 4

中文导读

探讨了人口跨境流动(移民、留学生、商务旅行和旅游)在全球经济中的核心作用,指出其规模小于贸易和资本流动,但政策调整可大幅提升全球福利,并讨论了拍卖移民签证等激进经济政策。

Abstract

People flows refers to the movement of people across international borders in the form of immigration, international student flows, business travel, and tourism. Despite its peripheral status in debates over globalization, the movement of people from low income to high income countries is fundamental in global economic development, with consequences for factor endowments, trade patterns, and transfer of technology. In part because people flows are smaller than trade and capital flows, the dispersion of pay for similarly skilled workers around the world exceeds the dispersion of the prices of goods and cost of capital. This suggests that policies that give workers in developing countries greater access to advanced country labor markets could raise global economic well-being considerably. The economic problem is that immigrants rather than citizens of immigrant-receiving countries benefit most from immigration. The paper considers "radically economic policies" such as auctioning immigration visas or charging sizeable fees and spending the funds on current residents to increase the economic incentive for advanced countries to accept greater immigration.

国际人口流动移民政策全球劳动力市场经济福利