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Working Papers

2019

1. Online Appendix for: International Evidence on Long-Run Money Demand
   Staff Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis View citations (2)

2016

2. Internal Migration in Developing Economies: An Overview
   Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (10)

2006

3. Effects of Migration on Sending Countries: What Do We Know?
   OECD Development Centre Working Papers, OECD Publishing View citations (53)
4. Policies for Migration and Development: A European Perspective
   OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs, OECD Publishing View citations (5)
5. Politiques migratoires et développement: Une perspective européenne
   Cahiers de politique économique du Centre de Développement de l'OCDE, OECD Publishing

2005

6. On the Importance of Finnishing School: Half a Century of Inter-generational Economic Mobility in Finland
   Discussion Papers, VATT Institute for Economic Research View citations (3)
   Also in Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics (2004) View citations (1)

2001

7. Diaspora and Development: Highly Skilled Migrants from East Asia
   Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics View citations (8)

2000

8. The Effects of Proximity and Transportation on Developing Country Population Migrations
   Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics View citations (10)
9. The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes and Poverty: A Review of Evidence
   Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes, and Poverty: A Review of Evidence, The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank (2002) View citations (98) (2002)

1998

10. Internal Migration and Urbanization: Recent Contributions and New Evidence
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (11)
11. Small manufacturing plants, pollution, and poverty: new evidence from Brazil and Mexico
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
12. The Rise in Union Wage Premia in South Africa
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (7)

1994

13. Internal Migration in Developing Countries
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (21)
    See also Chapter Internal migration in developing countries, Handbook of Population and Family Economics, Elsevier (1997) View citations (5) (1997)
14. International Environmental Indicators: Trade, Income and Endowments
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (6)
15. Structural Adjustment and Income Distribution in Malaysia
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development
16. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Training Needs
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (1)

1992

17. Economic development, environmental regulation, and the international migration of toxic industrial pollution: 1960-88
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (135)
18. Toxic releases by manufacturing: world patterns and trade policies
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (1)

1989

19. Job Security Regulations and the Dynamic Demand for Industrial Labor in India and Zimbabwe
    Boston University - Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Job security regulations and the dynamic demand for industrial labor in India and Zimbabwe, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (1993) View citations (91) (1993)

Undated

20. Abilities, Budgets and Age: Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland
    Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series, Boston University - Department of Economics View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2013

1. Intergenerational income immobility in Finland: contrasting roles for parental earnings and family income
   Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26, (3), 1057-1094 View citations (16)

2007

2. Migration and rural development
   The Electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, 2007, 4, (1), 99-122 View citations (10)

2006

3. Migration and Economic Development in Africa: A Review of Evidence
   Journal of African Economies, 2006, 15, (2), 337-395 View citations (51)

2005

4. Migration internationale vers les pays à haut revenu: quelles conséquences pour le développement économique des pays d'origine ?
   Revue d’économie du développement, 2005, 13, (4), 123-171 View citations (1)

2002

5. Plant size, industrial air pollution, and local incomes: evidence from Mexico and Brazil
   Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (2), 365-381 View citations (9)
6. The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes, and Poverty: A Review of Evidence
   The World Bank Research Observer, 2002, 17, (1), 21-45 View citations (98)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes and Poverty: A Review of Evidence, Boston University - Institute for Economic Development (2000) View citations (1) (2000)

1993

7. Job security regulations and the dynamic demand for industrial labor in India and Zimbabwe
   Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 40, (2), 241-275 View citations (91)
   See also Working Paper Job Security Regulations and the Dynamic Demand for Industrial Labor in India and Zimbabwe, Boston University - Institute for Economic Development (1989) View citations (1) (1989)
8. On the determinants of direct foreign investment: Evidence from East and Southeast Asia
   World Development, 1993, 21, (3), 391-406 View citations (109)

1992

9. The Toxic Intensity of Industrial Production: Global Patterns, Trends, and Trade Policy
   American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (2), 478-81 View citations (181)

1991

10. The Impact of Changes in Job Security Regulations in India and Zimbabwe
    The World Bank Economic Review, 1991, 5, (3), 395-413 View citations (54)

1989

11. Liberalization of Indian trade and industrial licensing: A disaggregated econometric model with simulations
    Journal of Development Economics, 1989, 31, (1), 141-175 View citations (4)

1988

12. Demand for India's manufactured exports
    Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 29, (1), 63-75 View citations (15)
13. Migration, Remittances, and the Family
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1988, 36, (3), 465-81 View citations (154)

1987

14. Emigration to South Africa's Mines
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (3), 313-30 View citations (109)
15. On the theory of DRC criteria Reply to Pursell and Tower
    Journal of Development Economics, 1987, 26, (1), 169-171
16. Resolution Ex ante versus ex post DRC's and the possibility of negative shadow prices
    Journal of Development Economics, 1987, 26, (1), 173-174

1985

17. Migration amongst the Botswana
    Economic Journal, 1985, 95, (378), 358-82 View citations (16)
18. Mines and Migrants in South Africa
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (5), 1094-1108 View citations (9)
19. Motivations to Remit: Evidence from Botswana
    Journal of Political Economy, 1985, 93, (5), 901-18 View citations (817)
20. The Lucas model misconstrued: Rebuttal
    World Development, 1985, 13, (2), 243-243
21. The puzzle of sharecropping: A piece refitted
    World Development, 1985, 13, (2), 237-238

1984

22. An Empirical Test of the Infant Industry Argument: Comment
    American Economic Review, 1984, 74, (5), 1110-11 View citations (2)
23. On the theory of DRC criteria
    Journal of Development Economics, 1984, 14, (3), 407-417

1979

24. Sharing, Monitoring, and Incentives: Marshallian Misallocation Reassessed
    Journal of Political Economy, 1979, 87, (3), 501-21 View citations (11)

1978

25. Internal migration in developing countries: A review of theory, evidence, methodology and research priorities: Michael P. Todaro (International Labor Office, Geneva, 1976) pp. vi+106, SwF 20.00
    Journal of Development Economics, 1978, 5, (1), 101-103 View citations (4)

1977

26. Hedonic Wage Equations and Psychic Wages in the Returns to Schooling
    American Economic Review, 1977, 67, (4), 549-58 View citations (76)
27. Is There a Human Capital Approach to Income Inequality?
    Journal of Human Resources, 1977, 12, (3), 378-395 View citations (2)

1975

28. Hedonic Price Functions
    Economic Inquiry, 1975, 13, (2), 157-78 View citations (43)
29. The supply-of-immigrants function and taxation of immigrant's incomes: An econometric analysis
    Journal of Development Economics, 1975, 2, (3), 289-308 View citations (8)

1974

30. The Distribution of Job Characteristics
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974, 56, (4), 530-40 View citations (10)

Books

2010

1. Enhancing Regional Trade Integration in Southeast Europe
   World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group View citations (6)

2005

2. International Migration and Economic Development
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (168)

1999

3. Restructuring the Malaysian Economy
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (6)

Edited books

2014

1. International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (117)

2010

2. Global Exchange and Poverty
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (1)

Chapters

2014

1. Migration and economic development: an introduction and synopsis
   Chapter 1 in International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, 2014, pp 1-8
2. The migration–trade link in developing economies: a summary and extension of evidence
   Chapter 11 in International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, 2014, pp 288-326

1999

3. A Profile of the Malaysian Labour Markets
   Palgrave Macmillan
4. Agriculture and the Rural Sector
   Palgrave Macmillan
5. Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan
6. Manufacturing
   Palgrave Macmillan
7. National Economic Trends
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)
8. Services
   Palgrave Macmillan
9. Summing up
   Palgrave Macmillan
10. The Long Run: Human Resource Development
    Palgrave Macmillan
11. The Malaysian Education and Training Systems
    Palgrave Macmillan View citations (2)
12. The Medium Run: Costs and International Competitiveness
    Palgrave Macmillan
13. The Public Sector
    Palgrave Macmillan
14. The Short Run: The Rise and Decline of Unemployment
    Palgrave Macmillan

1997

15. Internal migration in developing countries
    Chapter 13 in Handbook of Population and Family Economics, 1997, vol. 1, Part B, pp 721-798 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Internal Migration in Developing Countries, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development (1994) View citations (21) (1994)