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Channeling Remittances to Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
Giovanni, Julian di - 2014
differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …
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Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets
Dinkelman, Taryn; Kumchulesi, Grace; Mariotti, Martine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Frechet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for...
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Ageing and Welfare-State Policy Making : Macroeconomic Perspective
Razin, Asaf; Schwemmer, Alexander H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
It has been well recognized that population ageing could generate structural changes centered around the dwindling labor force, on one hand, and the expanding dependency on the generosity of the welfare state, on the other hand. Ageing-related welfare state policy entails both fiscal issues and...
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The Gift of Global Talent : Innovation Policy and the Economy
Kerr, William R. - 2019
Talent is the most precious resource for today's knowledge-based economy, and a significant share of the U.S. skilled workforce in technology fields is foreign born. The United States has long held a leading position in attracting global talent, but the gap to other countries is weakening....
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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2018
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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Opening the Door : Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2020
We examine how the large, one-time legalization authorized by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) has affected the scale and character of immigration to the U.S. since the late 1980s. Exploiting cross-country variation in the magnitude of the legalization shock, we find that each IRCA...
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