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, in the particular case of immigrants. The data used are original survey data collected among 1,200 Senegalese migrants in … four host countries. Potential endogeneity issues are dealt with by using migrants' ethnic and religious characteristics to … instrument for network help to find a job. Analyses show that migrants who obtained their job through migrant networks have a …
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(english) We use a unique set of identical labour force surveys that allow to observe, at the same time, migrants in … Togo, by contrast, combine both emigration and immigration. Looking at migrants characteristics we find that migrants tend … to be less educated than non migrants in both their origin and destination countries, are more likely than natives to …
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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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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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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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sample of 926 Senegalese migrants in three destination countries - France, Italy and Mauritania - and their origin household … migrants sénégalais dans trois pays de destinations (France, Italie et Mauritanie) appariés avec les non-migrants de leur …
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This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of … migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their interventions on the Malian territory. Thanks to four waves of Malian … differences during the whole period.________________________________ Nous analysons l’impact des associations de migrants (AM) de …
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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 way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of skill … mismatch, especially in Tunisia. The undereducation phenomenon is more prevalent among return migrants, indicating that they …
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This paper studies the joint determination of beliefs about the economic impact of immigration and immigration policy preferences, using data from the five waves of the European Social Survey (2002- 2010). In addition to standard socioeconomic characteristics, this analysis takes into account...
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une analyse critique des recherches récentes sur le phénomène associatif parmi les migrants sénégalais en Italie. La … proposées, telles que le rôle des organisations des migrants dans la protection sociale des associés et une analyse plus …
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