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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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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 … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that … has previously not received much attention in the migration literature, namely household subjective economic well …

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Democratizing intellectual property systems : how corruption hinders equal opportunities for firms

Paunov C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper analyses how corruption affects firms ownership of intellectual property titles that relate to firms technological, organizational and further innovation efforts quality certificates and patents. Using firm-level data covering 48 developing and emerging countries, we show corruption...

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Indian Pharma Within Global Reach?

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

The Indian pharmaceutical industry is presently going through a phase of transition and potential consolidation, owing to India's new TRIPS-compliant intellectual property regime and other rules aimed at enhancing the industry's credibility nationally and internationally. Appropriate policy...

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Institutions and credit

Farla, Kristine - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

It is well-known that the extent of credit lent to private agents differs widely between countries. The `financial deepening' of the economy offers opportunities as well as financial risks. This study investigates the extent to which institutional characteristics are re- lated to countries'...

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Transnationalism and integration: Complements or Substitutes?

Dekker, Bram; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between transnational practices and integration by testing whether they are substitutes or complements. For this purpose, we use a multidimensional transnationalism index. The index includes three dimensions of transnational practices, including migrants'...

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Education, training and skill development policies in Arab Gulf countries: Macro-micro overview

Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper uses a combination of secondary and primary data to provide a more comprehensive analysis of education, training and skill development policies in the Gulf countries. Different from earlier studies an interesting element in our analysis is that we discuss both the supply and demand...

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Global Migration of the Highly Skilled: A Tentative and Quantitative Approach

Dunnewijk, Theo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Migration in a globalising world is on the increase, especially migration of the highly skilled. It is quite natural … impact of migration negative for the country of origin and therefore "brain drain" turned into "brain gain" when it was seen …. The road in the middle is called "brain strain" emphasising that out migration can be either positive or negative for the …

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Remittances provide resilience against disasters in Africa

Naudé, Wim; Bezuidenhout, Henri - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

incomes, migration stocks, exchange rates, and the banking system. The relative persistence of remittances suggests that it is …

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Migration and multi-dimensional poverty in Moldovan communities

Siegel, Melissa; Waidler, Jennifer - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

This paper aims to understand the links between migration and poverty at the community level. Most of the research to … date on the links between migration and poverty has been conducted at the micro level, while research related to migration …) education, 3) livelihood and 4) health. We look at different rates of poverty by migration/remittance prevalence and country …

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