🚨New paper! 🚨 Making Migration Work for Adaptation: Classifying Remittances as Climate Finance This is a novel, exciting paper that we hope might make a difference. Huge thanks to my co-author @JB_climate_econ and to everyone who reviewed/provided comments. Thread below! 1/

Seasonal agricultural visas move hundreds of thousands of workers. @SamHuckstep & @JB_climate_econ argue that if the visas are targeted toward climate-vulnerable populations, the resulting remittances could become a powerful tool for climate adaptation: https://t.co/QmcOO364Gx

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How to use labor migration policy to support UK industrial goals ⬇️🌱 1. Use visa discretion 2. Facilitate int'l recruitment for SMEs 3. Develop bilateral partnerships 4. Use the Displaced Talent visa More from @helen_dempster & @SamHuckstep: https://t.co/sFAXuCT7qs

New @CGDev blog explores which countries will be hit by aid cuts. Some countries will lose large amounts of aid simply because of who their main donors are, rather than their need. 👏 @SamHuckstep, Laura Granito, Sara Casadevall Bellés, & @leecrawfurd. https://t.co/tASi83Wq2C

The big beautiful bill puts a 3.5% tax on remittances. @helen_dempster @SamHuckstep and Charlie Ward estimate this could reduce remittances to El Salvador by over 1 percentage point of GNI. That's a massive economic hit for a poor country.

Germany lacks roofers- crucial for building retrofitting. The number of apprentices is rising following bigger efforts, but shortages are inevitable. Germany's roofing association is in talks to bring people from abroad to work in the roofing trade. https://t.co/LeJgK6eYka

No one likes the H-1B lottery. But what system would be better? To answer this question, I FOIAed the US government to get never-before-seen data on H-1B petitions and modeled what different H-1B reform proposals would actually do. Here’s what I found…🧵

PSA. All the de-identified data from the first wave of the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey (PLMS) is now published, open and free for anyone to use. This is a long-term joint project of @devpolicy @ANUCrawford and @WorldBank, generously supported by @dfat 1/N

President of BusinessEurope, an association of 20 million EU-based companies: '“We need to realise that we need migration when it comes to getting engineers etc into Europe. It is just a fact that we will not manage alone,” Persson said.' https://t.co/rwBkjfTUlR

#MigrantsDay #econtwitter "NEW APPROACHES TO LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES" For the @EUparliament , I reviewed over 160 studies from econ, pol science, sociology, migration studies, etc. on #migrant and #refugee #integration

When I see research on this I always think of this Columbia study: 'Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use' Possibly the rise links to decreased status in the humanities, leading to greater insecurity among researchers? https://t.co/weXmj7xH6k

New Working paper: We find that bilateral labor agreements significantly increases migration. Low- and lower-middle-income countries can gain US$ 120 million each year from a single BLA in the form of higher migrant earnings! https://t.co/GjstMvKmeo

The CITB's submission: https://t.co/YSbCom4UXn And a good CITB report on migration and construction in the UK from last year: https://t.co/wBFVlmaxEd

Domestic recruitment is hard. The number of migrant workers in the construction sector has fallen 22,600 (7.4%) versus 2019, largely due to Brexit. The UK will need changes to both its domestic skills policy and its international migration policy to meet goals.

Skills needed are not new: construction requires recruitment and upskilling into known jobs. But without more workers, the sector must rely on 'increased productivity, which has remained low over the last several decades, competition with other sectors, or migration.'

'Since 2019, the construction industry has lost nearly 60,000 construction workers... [It] will need to recruit 251,500 more workers over the next five years to address these impacts and meet output demand at a time when the labour market is historically tight.'

The UK parliamentary committee on Net Zero currently has an enquiry open on workforce issues. The Construction Industry Training Board submits evidence on 'a range of labour market challenges which will limit [the sector's] ability to address the scale of retrofit work.'

Good new brief from @issafrica. It chimes with our recent paper. I especially like the points on remittances' advantages: vs. conventional climate finance, remittances are a) not loans, b) go directly to vulnerable populations, c) are rapidly disbursed. https://t.co/MGNg5xEimK

Stephanie Speck of @theGCF in @CGDev event: so far GCF has funded one project on internal displacement. 15 - 20 more have been proposed but not funded. Why? Funds are focused on risks to investments if made, not risks if investments are not. Good point. https://t.co/LKDAqZxIC9

Happy to see my @boell_eu @IOM_MENA @epc_eu Policy Brief out! More on how skills mobility pathways could support the #greentransition in agri-food systems in the EU & North Africa as part of the #GreenDeal⬇️ https://t.co/NKvFmpABJb

When Chinese workers migrate away from cities with rising pollution, how are aggregate productivity and welfare affected? EGC's @mushfiq_econ (@YaleSOM/@YaleRISE) explores how unskilled workers are bearing the brunt of pollution’s economic costs. Read: https://t.co/BRGjQ0TKTv