Economists estimate that decreasing barriers to migration by just 5 percent will:
A. decrease economic welfare of receiving countries by more than 5 percent.
B. increase economic welfare by more than lifting restrictions on capital mobility in their entirety.
C. decrease economic welfare of the countries that would lose their citizens to richer countries by trillions of dollars.
D. increase economic welfare of sending countries by trillions of dollars.
Answer: B
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