A CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION:
What is the impact of migration on developing countries? Is "Brain Drain" an important factor in development?

 

SUMMARY

Event: A Conference on Migration
Date: December 5, 2006
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Location: Lipton Hall
New York University Law School
108 West Third Street (near MacDougal)
New York, NY 10003

What is the impact of migration from developing countries to developed countries? Who is helped by it and who is hurt? This conference reviews the latest research, with evidence from many regions, including interesting new research on the emigration of professionals from poor countries.

• 9:30-10:20 Mark Rosensweig, Yale
  Global Wage Differences and the Circular Migration of Skilled Workers
  Discussant: Raquel Fernandez
   
• 10:20-11:10 Micheal Clemens, CGD
  Do visas kill? The effects of African health worker emigration
  Discussant: Rema Hanna
   
• 11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
   
• 11:30-12:20 William Easterly and Yaw Nyarko, NYU
  Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa?
  Discussant: Dalton Conley
   
• 12:20-1:30 Lunch
   
• 1:30-2:20 Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, NYU
  Rethinking Immigration for a Global Era
  Discussant:TBA
   
• 2:20-3:10 Jess Benhabib and Boyan Jovanovic, NYU
  Optimal migration
  Discussant: Jonathan Morduch
   
• 3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
   
• 3:30-4:20 Carola Suárez-Orozco, NYU
  Keeping Sight of Immigrant Youth
  Discussant:TBA
   
• 4:20-5:10 Guillermina Jasso, NYU
  Mapping the Journey: Health and Wealth, Love and Luck, from Africa to Legal Permanent Residence in the United States
  Additional Note
  Discussant: Larry Wu