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Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper uses micro-level remittance transaction data collected from money transfer service providers to estimate the...
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Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …
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. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate …
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As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is … international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …
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This chapter investigates the financial behavior of immigrants using data from the United States and Italy. While the income and occupational mobility of immigrants have received attention, much less is known about their financial market participation. To explore this aspect of immigrant...
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heart of the migration debate. To better understand the movements of people, the chapter presents a brief history of … migration to the region with an analysis of labor market data. The chapter also examines the consequences of migration on the …
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Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub …
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