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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory 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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aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but … later, and on average over the whole transition, this relationship is reversed. Though reallocation rates are larger in …
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We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … studies and find that the macroeconomic effects of reform (when measured objectively) tend to be larger and more precisely …
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roles “other people” play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …
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Romanian migration phenomenon. Therefore, the paper describes characteristics of Romanian labor migration and its labor market … the receiving and origin countries. The restructuring process that accompanied a painful economic transition created … severe disequilibria on the labor market, generating a crisis that remains ongoing. From this perspective, migration was and …
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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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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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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 …) and 2012-13 (Wave 2). To deal with the endogeneity of migration, we apply fixed effects estimation models and control for …
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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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