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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …

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The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior

Cabegin, Emily Christi A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...

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Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Georges, Annie; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper, we focus on the use of remittances to school children remaining in migrant communities in Haiti. After addressing the endogeneity of remittance receipt, we find that remittances raise school attendance for all children in some communities regardless of whether they have household...

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Motivations for Remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita; as405@kent.ac.uk - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrant family members abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...

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Remittances and Income Smoothing

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household...

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Selection Policy and Immigrants’ Remittance Behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Mahuteau, Stephane; Tani, Massimiliano - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...

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Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants’ remittance behavior. In this study, networks are defined as groups of immigrants from the same country that live in the same locality. Using the National Immigrant Survey, a unique database for Spain, immigrants are found to be...

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