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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The 'corrected' impact that does take the change in household …
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In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that … migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472133
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large …
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also an adequate distribution of income is influenced by many factors, including migration. This paper aims at highlighting … the effects of migration upon the economic development of EU Member State receiving countries, starting from economic and … social facts indicating a migration phenomenon that is ever increasing. In this regard, it has been thought appropriate to …
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We compare the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States—controlling for country of birth, country of education, years of education, work experience, sex, and ruralurban residence. This is made possible by new and uniquely...
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This study uses a unique natural experiment to test a simple model of international differences in workers’ wages and productivity. Large differences in wages across countries could arise from several sources. These include barriers to trade in outputs, differences in technology, differences...
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Migration is a phenomenon that reflects economic, social and demographic imbalances across countries and requires a … development impact of migration. It will do so by commenting on three broad questions. First, how and in what ways is migration … important for development? Second, what are the costs and benefits of migration for developing and developed countries? And …
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developed but hundreds of millions. And yet migration is not "free" (see the case of China). …
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invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … adaptés et inventés de nouveau par les réseaux de la migration transnationale dans un monde globalisé. Il n'y a aucune preuve …
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