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The updated text on the new climate goal #NCQG is finally out, suggesting a goal of $250bn per year by 2035. This figure is slightly above our 'no effort' baseline scenario of $222bn (this increased current efforts by inflation and economic growth). Short 🧵

When Chinese workers migrate away from cities with rising pollution, how are aggregate productivity and welfare affected? EGC's @mushfiq_econ (Yale School of Management/Y-RISE) explores how unskilled workers are bearing the brunt of pollution’s economic costs. Read: egc.yale.edu/research/how-d…

Happy to see my Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung EU ⏩ @boelleu.bsky.social IOM MENA European Policy Centre 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⬇️ epc.eu/en/Publication…

Stephanie Speck of Green Climate Fund in Center for Global Development 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. cgdev.org/event/unlockin…

Good new brief from ISS. 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. issafrica.org/research/polic…

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! documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

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? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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

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.' on.ft.com/4fYPcMF

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.org ANU Crawford School of Public Policy and World Bank, generously supported by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 1/N

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…🧵

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. cleanenergywire.org/news/lack-skil…

The big beautiful bill puts a 3.5% tax on remittances. Helen Dempster Sam Huckstep 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.

New Center for Global Development 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. 👏 Sam Huckstep, Laura Granito, Sara Casadevall Bellés, & Lee Crawfurd. cgdev.org/blog/charting-…