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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532677
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532860
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The Remitting Patterns of African Migrants in the OECD
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie - 2009
Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively little is known about which migrants remit, how much they remit, and how their remitting behavior varies with gender, education, income levels, and duration abroad. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533057
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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952002
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317978
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The Remitting Patterns of African Migrants in the OECD
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively little is known about which migrants remit, how much they remit, and how their remitting behavior varies with gender, education, income levels, and duration abroad. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317984
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358645
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Migration for Development: From Challenges to Opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …, including jobs for asylees. Dual citizenships and circular migration contracts are possible instruments. Migration policy can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648155
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The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven - 2009
The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …
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