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Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The …
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This paper analyzes the effects of parental migration on children left behind in order to understand whether and how … the effects of migration on children depend on which of their parents migrates. I describe the migration of one of the … Indonesia, where female migration is particularly widespread. To solve the selection problems entailed in the comparison between …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migration networks upon migrants‟ self …-selection in education from the analysis of the recent process of Ecuadorian migration. The severe economic crisis that hit Ecuador … in the late 1990s induced a massive wave of migration, from a country which was characterized by a substantial …
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making migration and FDI complements rather than substitutes in the long run. In this paper, we estimate the magnitude of … capital and migration stocks rather than flows. Regarding migrants, we distinguish the total and the skilled diasporas abroad …
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The pace of international skilled migration has accelerated during recent decades and it has attracted considerable … stylized facts on the magnitude and skill composition of migration and explores the main findings on brain drain. Then it …
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of covillagers at destination, using data on life-time histories of migration and education choices from a rural region …
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Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating the short-run effects of parents\' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country whose health and...
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associated with social networks, or whether labor migration displaces social informal institutions in village economies at origin …. This paper directly tests the role of international migration in shaping participation in groups and social networks by … Mozambique, we find that households with successful migrants (i.e. those receiving either remittances or return migration) engage …
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, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …
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exposed to large immigration. The results hold after controlling for additional factors such as the degree of democracy …
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