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impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what … transmission channels through which remittances affect households and sectors. I give a particular attention to the investment of … remittances in the real estate sector, by allowing a segmentation of the savings market. To begin with, I assess the negative …
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This paper fills the gap between individual selection models and collective approaches of migration. We build a … theoretical model in order to account for household-based migration decisions and derive its implications on migrant selection …. Assuming that the origin household maximizes a collective utility including earnings but also further remittances when choosing …
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Migrants' remittances should b e considered as one of the determinants of migration ows, since they have an economic … remittances. We therefore use an epidemic mo del to formalize such mechanisms, and include these feedback e ects in the migrants …
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
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migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about … solution. But, when we incorporate "brain waste" and "return migration", then it is optimal to migrate when young. …
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Comparing intentions to migrate and actual migration of Mexicans, I intend to assess the impact of unexpected shocks … and misevaluated costs on the materialization of migration plans. I show that both sets of reasons may explain … theoretical framework of the Roy model. I use intention and migration data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, together with …
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This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We … results are con rmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may a ect politics in the …
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This paper investigates the importance and role of migration networks in Senegal using a new nationally representative … networks on international migration depending on their characteristics in terms of composition and destination. Results from … positive influence on migration than community networks. Networks also seem to have heterogeneous effects on migration …
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