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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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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 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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incomes, migration stocks, exchange rates, and the banking system. The relative persistence of remittances suggests that it is …
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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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Migration was not an explicit goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), rightly so in this writer's view, but it … MDG period in 2015, it is worth reflecting upon what will follow, and if and how migration should be incorporated into …; second, how migration might fit into these goals. These notes and reflections will conclude with a possible policy direction …
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, investment and savings, net foreign debt, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate …
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emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows … have a negative sign in the presence of migration stock variables; (iii) stocks of migrants in six OECD countries and in …
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The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … of countries with per capita income below $1200 (2000). We estimate regressions for dynamic equations of migration … economy aspects aid, trade, capital movements and migration. The linear-quadratic impact of the income difference between rich …
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We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of GDP, for about 30 years in two samples of countries with per capita income above and below $1200 using dynamic panel data methods. Remittances increase the savings ratio in...
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