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Intra-Family Migration Decisions and Elderly Left Behind

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

In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...

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Village level inequality, migration and remittances in rural Mexico: How do they change over time?

Arslan, Aslihan; Taylor, J. Edward - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … of international remittances at the national level. We also analyze regional differences in the effects of remittances on … equalizing change in the marginal effects of remittances was the highest. This provides supporting evidence for the migration …

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The Matching Approach on Expenditure Patterns of Migrant Households: Evidence from Moldova

Poppe, Robert - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown that temporary migrant households have additional...

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Come Back or Stay? Spend Here or There? Temporary versus Permanent Migration and Remittance Patterns in the Republic of Moldova

Pinger, Pia R. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

remittances patterns. Using a new detailed household dataset on migration in the Republic of Moldova, it is shown that return is … respective migrant networks. Concerning remittances, the results indicate that temporary migrants remit around 30% more than … temporary migration is relatively more favorable for developing countries as it fosters higher remittances, repatriation of …

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Do transfer costs matter for foreign remittances? A gravity model approach

Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on …

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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

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...

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Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education

Görlich, Dennis; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and …

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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows

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

lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker remittances have received less attention in this context. This paper … provides an analysis on the magnitude of remittances, their volatility, and their relationship to other capital flows. Moreover …, we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of remittances and private capital flows. …

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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

or personal transfers) by 1139 pairs of migrants and recipients of remittances in Moldova in 2006. Explanatory variables …

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