Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing … remittances from internal migrants and human capital investment in rural areas. A propensity score–matching approach to account … for the selectivity of households is used into receiving remittances. [IFPRI Discussion Paper 00858]. …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

each of the three districts of Bageshwar, Chamoli, and Tehri Garhwal. [ICIMOD Report]. URL:[http://books.icimod.org/uploads/tmp/icimod-labour_migration_and_remittances_in_uttarakhand.pdf] …The type, volume, and mode of transfer of remittances in Uttarakhand is analysed. The impact of remittances, in terms …

Development Studies. It covers three areas: migration, remittances and employment. Their short-term trends and long …The results of the 2007 round of the Migration Monitoring Studies (MMS) being conducted periodically by the Centre for …

The purpose of the paper is first to quantify the extent of high skilled migration from India and then to distil out …

While a wide range of factors influence rural-rural and rural-urban migration in developing countries, there is …, migration and weather anomalies. This strand of research acquires importance in the context of climate change adaptation. In the … Indian context this analysis gets further complicated due to significant presence of short-term migration. Acknowledging the …

higher rate after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later … heterogeneity in take-up and re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. Several pieces …

This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …