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Remittances and labour allocation decisions at communities of origin : the case of rural Mexico

López-Feldman, Alejandro; Escalona, Daniel - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 4/6, pp. 238-242

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Altruism : primary motivation of remittances

Azizi, SeyedSoroosh - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 17, pp. 1218-1221

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Remittances and child labor in Pakistan : a tale of complementarities

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023

remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child … labor in comparable households that differ solely in their access to remittances. We find that remittances have in general … failed to mitigate household reliance on child labor in Punjab. However, the impact depends critically on whether remittances …

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Should I stay or should I go? : migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients

Alfano, Vincenzo; D'Uva, Marcella; De Simone, Elina; … - 2019

matching between the existing demand and the Ph.D. holders' specialization. The aim of this paper is to test whether migrating … from some regions may improve job-education matching in Italy. The econometric strategy takes into account Ph.D. holders …' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration …

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Finding love abroad : who marries a migrant and what do they gain?

Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2023

This study explores the role of individual and local marriage market characteristics in whether recently wed U.S. residents "imported" a spouse instead of marrying someone already present in the country. Our findings indicate that U.S. natives and immigrants whose spouse is a "marriage migrant"...

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Country of origin and employment prospects among immigrants : an analysis of south-south and north-south migrants to South Africa

Peters, Amos C.; Sundaram, Asha - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 16/18, pp. 1415-1418

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Job mobility as a new explanation for the immigrant-native wage gap : a longitudinal analysis for the German labor market

Brenzel, Hanna; Reichelt, Malte - 2015

depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären …. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach …

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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...

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How migrants' food tastes shape international agro-food trade

Kohler, Andreas; Wunderlich, Anne - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 5, pp. 469-476

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Reservation wages of first- and second-generation migrants

Constant, Amelie; Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 13/15, pp. 945-949

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