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The impact of Medium-Skilled immigration: A general equilibrium approach

Muysken, Joan; Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country’s labour market in a specific-factors-two-sector model with heterogeneous labour (low-, medium-, and high-skilled). We assume price-setting behaviour in both manufacturing and services sectors. The...

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To return permanently or to return temporarily?: Explaining migrants' intentions

Bilgili Ö.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper studies migrants intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants in the Netherlands, we explore how migrants experiences...

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Afghan unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands: Far away from home and protected?

Siegel M.; Buil C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This study aims to provide insights into the migration situation of Afghan unaccompanied minors UAMs in the Netherlands and the extent to which the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child CRC is respected. This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the largest group of UAMs in the...

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Migration, remittances and household welfare in Ethiopia

Andersson L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We employ both subjective a households subjective economic well-being and objective measures asset holdings and asset accumulation to define household welfare. A matching approach is...

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Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on expenditure patterns of recipient households?: The Moldovan case

Waidler J.; Hagen-Zanker J.S.; Gassmann F.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on household expenditure patterns While two separate strands of literature have looked at how social assistance or remittances have been spent, few studies have compared them directly. Using data from a nationally representative...

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Does shelter assistance reduce poverty in Afghanistan?

Loschman C.; Siegel M.; Parsons C.A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

Forced migration, often resulting from violent conflict, imposes large economic costs on both sending and receiving countries, on those agencies that coordinate humanitarian services and most importantly upon the forced migrants themselves. Programs encouraging the return of refugees are...

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Eliciting illegal migration rates through list randomization

McKenzie D.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other social science applications to elicit sensitive information. We trial this technique by adding it...

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Growth with Endogenous Migration Hump and the Multiple, Dynamically Interacting Effects of Aid in Poor Developing Countries

Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

immigration, savings, public expenditure on education and growth, but reduce tax revenues, all as a share of GDP. Net immigration … enhances labour force growth and the savings ratio. Official development aid decreases the savings ratio and the per capita GDP … direct effects of aid on growth and the unfavourable effects on savings, tax revenues, and labour force growth. …

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International migration and local employment: analysis of self-selection and earnings in Tajikistan

Atamanov, Aziz; Berg, Marrit van den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

This paper addresses the issue of self-selection of individuals in international labour migration, non-agricultural and agricultural employment in Tajikistan and its link to earnings from these activities. Unlike most empirical studies, we could attribute selection bias on unobservable...

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The links between economic integration and remittances behaviour of migrants in the Netherlands

Bilgili Ö. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

In a time of economic downturn and the recession in Europe, a migrants labour market position is even more precarious, and may influence their economic homeland engagement. Based on the IS Academy, Migration and Development A World in Motion Project survey data3, I focus on Afghan, Burundian,...

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