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A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the … studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration affects those family members who are left behind. In … a broad range of life-events occurring between the two waves. These include the emigration of a child but also events …
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We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …
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life satisfaction and emigration intentions: it is the most and the least life-satisfied people who are the most likely to …
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analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
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We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
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. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data … from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant … positive effect on the wages of stayers. A one percentage-point increase in the emigration rate predicts a 0.67% increase in …
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This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … of those with high levels of educational attainment also increases. The emigration rate of those with middle and low …
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the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to show that emigration significantly changed the wage distribution in the … calibration of a structural model of labor demand, I find that over the period of five years emigration increased the wages of … significant effect of emigration on the wage distribution between high-skilled and low-skilled workers. …
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Quebec, as many other immigrant destination areas, has experienced difficulty in retaining its original set of newcomers. The paper addresses this issue of retention in terms of a brain circulation model under which immigrants enter a niche area (Quebec) and receive subsidized human capital...
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