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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows

Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...

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Does Migration Raise Agricultural Investment? An Empirical Analysis for Rural Mexico

Böhme, Marcus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The effect of remittances on capital accumulation remains a contested topic. This paper uses a panel data set from rural Mexico to investigate the impact of remittances on agriculture and livestock investments. After controlling for the endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable...

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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...

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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?

Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the possibility of a beneficial brain drain...

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China

Mu, Ren; de Brauw, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in...

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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

fee-for-service basis. Since wage rates are exogenous, earning differentials are driven by differences in productivity. We …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity … physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low-productivity …

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