Marieke Kleemans
@mariekekleemans.bsky.social
Development economist, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Many thanks to @voxdev.bsky.social for featuring our research on internal migration in Indonesia, where we show that emigration raises wages and improves job opportunities for workers who stay behind in origin areas: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🆕 How internal migration affects the workers left behind
Today on VoxDev, David Buller (UIUC) & Marieke Kleemans find that internal migration in Indonesia raises wages and improves access to formal employment for those left behind: https://ow.ly/L9q450XW0OP
Today on VoxDev, David Buller (UIUC) & Marieke Kleemans find that internal migration in Indonesia raises wages and improves access to formal employment for those left behind: https://ow.ly/L9q450XW0OP
How internal migration affects the workers left behind
Internal migration in Indonesia raises wages and improves access to formal employment for the workers left behind, particularly lower-educated workers, by easing labour supply pressures and reallocating jobs across the formal and informal sector.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Many thanks to @voxdev.bsky.social for featuring our research on internal migration in Indonesia, where we show that emigration raises wages and improves job opportunities for workers who stay behind in origin areas: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Marieke Kleemans
The old view of skilled emigration as a 'brain drain' has collapsed after a generation of research.
Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—>
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—>
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The old view of skilled emigration as a 'brain drain' has collapsed after a generation of research.
Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—>
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—>
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Reposted by Marieke Kleemans
Check out our new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Thanks to co-editors @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, & Caroline Theoharides!
We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...
We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on International Migration is out now!
Senior Editor Dean Yang & Co-Editors Catia Batista, Gaurav Khanna, David McKenzie, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Caroline Theoharides review research on international migration.
Read & download here: https://ow.ly/qXx950XWAar
Senior Editor Dean Yang & Co-Editors Catia Batista, Gaurav Khanna, David McKenzie, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Caroline Theoharides review research on international migration.
Read & download here: https://ow.ly/qXx950XWAar
January 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Check out our new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Thanks to co-editors @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, & Caroline Theoharides!
We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...
We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...
Reposted by Marieke Kleemans
The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.
Midwest International Economic Development Conference
publish.illinois.edu
December 3, 2024 at 3:38 PM
The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.