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Financial education for migrants and their families
Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - 2015
Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...
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Financial Education for Migrants and their Families
Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2015
Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276665
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Chapter 23. Regional Studies : Latin America and the Caribbean
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1261-1302). 2015
This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean region from the colonial period to the present. Themes that cross history are highlighted as are the reversals of trends. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025427
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Migration and families left behind : families that stay behind when a member migrates do not clearly benefit
Démurger, Sylvie - 2015
behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430776
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The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico
Hamilton, Erin R.; Choi, Kate H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 278-286
, remittances are beneficial. We extend this work by considering a different measure of infant health in addition to LBW: macrosomia …-migration, receipt of remittances, and return migration) and the risk of LBW and macrosomia. We examine this association using two sets … potential sources of endogeneity. Whereas community remittances and return migration are associated with lower risk of LBW, they …
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers
Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22
New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Cross-border commuting and migration intentions : the roles of risk aversion and time preference
Nowotny, Klaus - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 2, pp. 137-156
This article analyses the effects of individual risk aversion and time preference on cross-border mobility intentions using a theoretical and empirical model. The paper extends the previous literature by considering both cross-border commuting and migration as modes of mobility. The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406276
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Migration, housing and regional disparities: A gravity model of inter-regional migration with an application to selected OECD countries
Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2021
Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be an important mechanism of spatial economic adjustment, affecting regional demographic and growth patterns. This paper examines the economic and housing-related factors that...
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