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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 …
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university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education …
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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
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied … by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is … descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely …
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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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predominantly determined by the same success factors as those for the New Zealand born. Migration increases trade and tourism, both … consequences of greater diversity; and differences in impacts between temporary and long-term migration. …
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migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …
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This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration …
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migration but uses the help of cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we study how legalisation and repression can be … combined to eliminate human smuggling while controlling migration flows. This policy mix also has the advantage that the funds …
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