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The Costs and Benefits of Migration into the European Union: Debunking Contemporary Myths with Facts
Leke, Ivo J.; Asongu, Simplice - 2016
The purpose of this study is to dispel some myths associated with migrants in order to improve socio-economic appraisal of the consequences of the recent surge of migrants into Europe. We argue that: (i) the concern about loss of Christian cultural values is lacking in substance because compared...
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Determinants of Health Professionals' Migration in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial …
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Globalization and health worker crisis: what do wealth-effects tell us?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world. Shortages in health professionals are reaching...
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The impact of health worker migration on development dynamics: evidence of wealth-effects from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and …) human development (GDP per capita growth) in low (high) quantiles of the distribution. (3) Specific differences in effects … are found in top quantiles of human development and low quantiles of GDP per capita growth where, the physician (nurse …
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Determinants of Health Professionals' Migration in Africa: a WHO based Assessment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness …
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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
Ssozi, John; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2014
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if complemented with education. The indirect effects vary with...
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Remittance inflow and unemployment in Nigeria
Ihedimma, Godfrey Ikechukwu; Opara, Godstime I. - 2020
Nigeria is unarguably one of the countries with its citizens widely spread across the globe and the income earned forms a huge chunk of remittance back to Nigeria. The study focuses on what implications remittances may have for unemployment in Nigeria. Remittance is treated as being endogenously...
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
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Towards inclusive growth in Africa: Remittances, and financial development interactive effects and thresholds
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel Y.; Dossou, Toyo … - 2023
development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that … of remittances on inclusive growth. Third, our threshold analysis indicates that for financial development to interact … informing policy on the level of investments needed for financial development to promote fairer income growth and distribution …
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The effect of skills acquired abroad by return migrants on social relations and quality of life in Cameroon
Fankem, Gislain Stéphane Gandjon; Taka, Dieudonné; … - 2023
This article fills the lack of work on the link between return migration and social cohesion in the country of origin of migration. For the first time, we assess the effect of skills acquired abroad by return migrants on social relations and quality of life in Cameroon using original survey data...
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