CONF : « A Market for Work Permits », intervention de Martin Ravaillon dans le Webinar « Economics of Migrations » — Mercredi 15 avril 2020, 17h30

Le CERDI orga­nise une série de sémi­naires en ligne (Zoom webi­nars) sur l’économie des migra­tions, en colla­bo­ra­tion avec PSE, le LISER, l’Uni­ver­sité du Luxem­bourg, l’Uni­ver­sidad Carlos III, le CEPII et IC Migra­tions du CNRS. Cette initia­tive veut contri­buer à animer des échanges entre cher­cheurs dans ce contexte exceptionnel.

Inscrip­tion : bit​.ly/​3​a4yGc8 (Zoom)

Présentaion

It will be poli­ti­cally diffi­cult to libe­ra­lize inter­na­tional migra­tion without some form of protec­tion for host-country workers. The paper explores the scope for effi­ciently mana­ging migra­tion and refu­gees using a compe­ti­tive market for work permits. Host-county workers would be granted the legal option of renting out their implicit citi­zen­ship work permits for a period of their choice, while forei­gners purchase time-bound work permits. The market is anony­mous, with no need for perso­na­lized matchings of buyers with sellers. Aggre­gate labor supply need not change in the host country. However, total output would rise, and workers would see enhanced social protec­tion. Simu­la­tions for the US and Mexico suggest that the new market would attract many skilled migrants, boos­ting GDP and redu­cing poverty in the US.

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