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, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human … ; environmental accounts and accounting ; environmental equity ; population growth ; international migration ; remittances …
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We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …
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Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a comprehensive review of the existing literature that aims at providing a full picture of this dynamic migratory process and discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents...
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Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
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; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …
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insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …
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Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …
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remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …
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of family members is negatively associated with children's school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this …
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
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