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Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Manchec, Marie-Helene Le - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows Â— foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...

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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows to Developing Countries

Kuckulenz, Anja; Buch, Claudia M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

distribution within countries, on the determinants of remittances at a micro-level, or on the effects of migration and remittances …

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Intra-Family Migration Decisions and Elderly Left Behind

Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

' interactions that explains how chain migration can lead to a breakdown of traditional caregiving structures while an opposing … data from Moldova and found to perform better than predictions of some established migration models. The empirical analysis … suggests that migration and staying in order to provide care are strategic complements for children of elderly parents in most …

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Donors’ Openness to Immigration and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid

Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both increased migration and more local non-farm employment. These … to migration. Low-income households increase their income share in particular from local non-farm activities through more …

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What determines the choice of transfer channel for remittances? Evidence from Moldova

Siegel, Melissa; Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

include socioeconomic characteristics of the migrant and other household members, the pattern of migration (destination … migrant’s irregular legal status in the host country, and short migration spells …

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