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The Impact of Economic Migration on Children's Cognitive Development: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey
Powers, Elizabeth T. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey to estimate the impact of a household member's migration to … whom the effect of parental migration is comparable to speaking an indigenous language at home or having a mother with very … low educational attainment. Additionally, household-member migration to the United States affects how children spend their …
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Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico
Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Rivas, Rene Osorio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease...
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The effects of training on Romanian migrants’ income: a propensity score matching approach
Roman, Monica; Popescu, Madalina Ecaterina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Training programs are an important tool of human resource management, especially in case of technological and organizational changes inside a company. According to the human capital theory, trainings generally lead to increased post-training wages. Having this into consideration, this paper aims...
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Spaniards in the wider World
Marcén, Miriam; Bellido, Héctor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between the education level of Spanish emigrants and their country of destination. Since Spanish emigrants were born under the same laws, economic conditions, and institutions, the differences in their destination countries can be due to dissimilarities in...
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Analyzing Indian Diaspora: Pyramid Impact on Reforms & Migration Pattern
Sapovadia, Vrajlal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper attempts to work on transnational migration of Indians after 1800 AD and limits it on two aspects; i. those … the pattern of migration of Indians over time and its impact on India. Beside we discuss economic, social and political … each wave based on the destination, factor behind migration, skill set of migrant. …
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The Effects of Relocation on Wages: A Decomposition Analysis
Asma, Hyder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article estimates the wage differentials between the natives and the relocated workers. Nationwide Pakistan Labor Force Survey 2005–06 has been used with a total sample of 10,401 working individuals. Two wage equations are estimated for those living in that area since birth or those who...
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Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVIII-XX centuries)
Brie, Mircea; Şipoş, Sorin; Horga, Ioan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVII-XX Centuries) This present collective volume, coordinated by Mircea Brie, Sorin Şipoş and Ioan Horga, contains the papers of the international conference Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258941
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Employment in Romania: evidence from a panel data analysis
Vasilescu, Denisa Maria; Aparaschivei, Larisa; Roman, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the early 1990s has already reduced the population. On top of this, there is the migration of the work force - most of the … migration rate, the mortality and birth rates, the unemployment rate, the real earnings, the secondary and tertiary education …
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Migration and the Tiebout-Tullock Hypothesis Revisited
Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This empirical study investigates the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis as it might have applied to net domestic state in-migration … rates over the period 1990 through 1999. It appears that the net state in-migration rate has been directly related to the …-of-life variables reflecting violent crime rates and sunnier climates, also seem to be significant determinants of the net state in-migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260031
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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living … migration of due to Push factors will decrease while that due to Pull factors will increase. One of the important facets of … migration in Indian context, recent studies on migration in India have focussed mainly on rural-urban migration or on migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260183