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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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Identifying the Motives of Migrant Philanthropy

Lücke, Matthias; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Peuker, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Donations by migrants to community projects in their home countries (“collective remittances”) help to provide local … public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in … general to identify possible motives for collective remittances. We test the empirical relevance of these motives using micro …

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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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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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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants. Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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Mass Migration and Seasonality. Evidence on Moldova's Labour Exodus

Görlich, Dennis; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

This paper identifies the determinants and patterns of mass migration in Moldova – a country in which migration has become the dominant socioeconomic phenomenon in a period of less than 8 years. Special emphasis is placed on seasonal migration, which has become increasingly popular in many...

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The impact of a Customs Union with the EU on internal migration in Turkey under the two alternative Harris-Todaro and wage curve settings

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The impact on internal migration of the recent Customs Union (CU) agreement between Turkey and the European Union (EU) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility, under two alternative specifications for the labour...

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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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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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The Drivers of Diaspora Donations for Development: Evidence from the Philippines

Licuanan, Victoria; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Little is known about the drivers of migrant donations to their home countries. Using data on all donations from Filipino migrants administered by the Philippine Commission on Filipinos Overseas between 1990 and 2010, this paper explores which host and home country factors are associated with...

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