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International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Philippine migrants' exchange rate shocks
Yang, Dean - 2005
the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and … lead to greater entry into relatively capital-intensive enterprises by migrants' origin households. "--World Bank web site …
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Contemporary migration to South Africa : a regional development issue
Kabwe-Segatti, Aurelia Wa (contributor);  … - 2011
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Who is coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand under the new recognized Seasonal Employer Program ?
McKenzie, David - 2008
"New Zealand's new Recognized Seasonal Employer program allows workers from the Pacific Islands to come to New Zealand for up to seven months to work in the horticulture and viticulture industries. One of the explicit objectives of the program is to encourage economic development in the Pacific....
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How pro-poor is the selection of seasonal migrant workers from Tonga under New Zealand's recognized Seasonal Employer Program ?
Gibson, John - 2008
"Temporary migration programs for unskilled workers are increasingly being proposed as a way to both relieve labor shortages in developed countries and aid development in sending countries without entailing many of the costs associated with permanent migration. New Zealand's new Recognized...
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International migration, economic development & policy
Özden, Caglar (contributor); Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521864
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Can guest worker schemes reduce illegal migration ?
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2006
"The authors analyze recent efforts at international cooperation to limit illegal migration, particularly through the use of legal migration avenues like guest worker schemes. They show that while guest worker schemes may be desirable as an avenue of international migration, they are an...
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Towards Better Labor Migration Systems in Northern Central America
World Bank - 2023
to regulate, facilitate, fortify, and further access of labor migrants to international labor markets …
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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394185
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The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems : some insights from recent household survey data
Barbone, Luca - 2009
2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394193
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Immigration policy and foreign population in Switzerland, volume 1 0f 1
Gross, Dominique Marie - 2006
government has tried to manage the flows of migrants in the hope of reconciling a chronic excess demand for labor with mounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522207