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This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
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Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic … development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of … the impact of return migration on entrepreneurship is affected by double unobservable migrant self-selection, both at the …
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Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
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may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between … trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from LDCs so far are very scarce …. The paper utilizes a new dataset that is based on migration from 86 African and Asian countries to Germany. Information is …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
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neighbouring countries. We estimate migration intentions of Mozambicans before and after the attacks, controlling for the … characteristics of households and previous migration behaviour. Using a placebo period, we show that other things equal, the migration … intention of household heads decreases from 37% to 33%. The sensitivity of migration intentions to violence is larger for …
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In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
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We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property varies with experimental institutions, and that our subject pools exhibit significantly...
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This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals from 1990-2005 based on the difference-GMM method of Arellano and Bond (1991). We find that various dimensions of financial reform impact remittances differently. Increased...
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