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developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …
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This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply …
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How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare …
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Calls for liberalizing cash crop sectors in sub-saharan Africa have been voiced for decades. Yet, the impact of reforms … West Africa. …
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. This attracted migrants to producing areas and the economic surplus drove urbanization. Using data at a very fine spatial …
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In this paper, we study the determinants of rental values in urban housing markets in Kigali, Rwanda. In particular, we study the value of access to piped water; due to the high costs associated with installing new piped connections, renting a property with an existing connection is often the...
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migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in …
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Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...
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to transport planners and policy-makers in Africa to bridge the French-English language divide. The aim of the paper is … Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal and South Africa, enables a meta-analysis of African travel survey findings amongst low …
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