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Migration, Self-selection and Returns to Education in the WAEMU

Vreyer, Philippe De; Gubert, Flore; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2007

results show that Cote d'Ivoire remains the most important immigration country in the sub-region. Our data also suggests that … Togo, by contrast, combine both emigration and immigration. Looking at migrants characteristics we find that migrants tend …'émigration et d'immigration. L'examen des caractéristiques des migrants montre qu'ils tendent à être moins éduqués que les non …

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Skill Mismatch and Migration in Egypt and Tunisia

David, Anda; Nordman, Christophe - DIAL - 2014

(english) The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of skill mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the...

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L'associationnisme sénégalais en Italie: une revue de la littérature

Navarra, Cecilia; Salis, Ester - DIAL - 2011

(english) The aim of this work is to propose a critical analysis of the recent research works on the Senegalese associations in Italy. First, the main socio-economic characteristics of the Senegalese migration are described. Second, the literature review on Senegalese associations in Italy focus...

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Migrant network and immigrants’ occupational mismatch

Chort, Isabelle - DIAL - 2013

(english) This paper defines new measures of horizontal and vertical mismatch based on the discrepancies between the skill content of occupations in which individuals have a self-assessed productive advantage and that of their actual job. Based on these definitions, this paper provides the first...

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The Formation of Risk Sharing Networks

Fafchamps, Marcel; Gubert, Flore - DIAL - 2005

(English) This paper examines the endogenous formation of risk sharing networks in the rural Philippines. We show that geographic proximity is a major determinant of interpersonal relationships. We find little evidence that people form relationships to pool income risk. The existence of a...

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Migration and Employment Interactions in a Crisis Context: the case of Tunisia

David, Anda; Marouani, Mohamed Ali - DIAL - 2015

This article analyses how a crisis impacts labor markets in origin countries through migration channels. For this purpose, we develop a novel dynamic general equilibrium model with a focus on the interlinkages be- tween migration, the labor market and education. The main innovation of the paper...

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Are Remittances More Effective Than Aid To Reduce Child Mortality? An Empirical Assessment using Inter and Intra-Country Data

Chauvet, Lisa; Gubert, Flore; Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - DIAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances reduce child mortality and that the impact of health aid is...

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Migrations internationales, libre-échange et intégration régionale

Cogneau, Denis; Tapinos, Georges - DIAL - 2000

The paper proposes an overview of the links between trade openness and international migration. Written in 1997, it is reedited here as a tribute to Geroges Tapinos, died suddendly on 20 November 2000. The paper argues that free trade policies presently proposed by developed countries to...

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Intra-household Selection into Migration: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Migrants and Origin Households in Senegal

Chort, Isabelle; Senne, Jean-Noël - DIAL - 2013

(english) 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...

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Migrants' Home Town Associations and Local Development. Evidence from Mali

Chauvet, Lisa; Gubert, Flore; Mercier, Marion; … - DIAL - 2013

This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...

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