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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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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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Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Kroeger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...

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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … development, Happy Life Years, smart gender justice, smart R&D, and both formulations of the smart development index. …

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

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Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

, give examples of where it has been applied in practice, and draw out lessons for future work in this area. …

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Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related...

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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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