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Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...
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The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...
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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
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La littérature économique récente sur l'impact de la migration sur le pays d'origine n'a pas réussi à analyser l …'effet de la migration sur le chômage et le taux de salaire surtout dans les zones urbaines. A l'aide d'un MEGC détaillé …'émigration marocaine vers l'Union Européenne, l'immigration subsaharienne vers le Maroc et la migration rural-urbain, l'impact sur le taux …
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migration data for five European countries over the 1980s and 1990s to perform quasi-structural estimations of a new economic …
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impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …
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migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We derive the optimal marginal income tax rates at the equilibrium … semi-elasticity of migration on which we lack empirical evidence are crucial to derive the shape of optimal marginal income …
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increase female migration. We build several original indices of gender equality using principal component analysis. Our … the workplace is positively correlated with the migration of women, especially of the high-skilled. We observe the …
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discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination … correlated with the migration of women (especially the high-skilled) and negatively correlated with the migration of men …
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Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk …. Our results suggest that migration may be driven more by a stronger belief in one's ability to succeed in an uncertain and …
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