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Determinants of health professionals' migration in Africa : a WHO based assessment
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409899
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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 …) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained empirically void over the last decades despite the acute concern of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410040
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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 … literature by empirically investigating the WHO hypothetical determinants of health-worker migration in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410067
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Determinants of health professionals' migration in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
-worker migration. Findings provide a broad range of tools for the fight against health-worker brain-drain. As a policy implication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410241
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586961
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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
The study employs macro data for 42 African countries to examine the interactive and threshold effects of financial development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that remittances are not statistically significant in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014265891
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409201
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Remittances and income inequality in Africa : financial development thresholds for economic policy
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Gbolonyo, Emmanuel; Dossou, Toyo … - 2022
The study employs macro data on 42 African countries to examine whether remittances and financial development (including its sub-components of access, depth and efficiency) contribute to the equalisation of incomes across the continent. Robust evidence from the dynamic GMM estimator shows that:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257108
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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 … conclusions. Our results seem to corroborate the hypothesis that migration contributes to the transfer of norms and practices from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233346
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404398