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Remittances and informal work
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532104
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Should i stay or should i go? : Romanian migrants during transition and enlargements
Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - 2014
, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … Romanian migration phenomenon. Therefore, the paper describes characteristics of Romanian labor migration and its labor market … severe disequilibria on the labor market, generating a crisis that remains ongoing. From this perspective, migration was and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457404
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International migration, return migration, and their effects : a comprehensive review on the Romanian case
Anghel, Remus Gabriel; Botezat, Alina; Coșciug, Anatolie; … - 2016
Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a … discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents and characterizes the Romanian migration through the different phases … Romanian migration addressing the remitting behavior and its development over the past years. The issue of return migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595856
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Structural change in MENA remittance flows
Naufal, George; Genc, Ismail H. - 2013
After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766270
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250039
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Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581651
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Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2018
, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821194
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Hollowing out the middle? : remittances and income inequality in Nigeria
Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing literature, our methodology of instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) explicitly demonstrates the differential marginal impact of remittances for households at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821199
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To Europe or not to Europe? : migration and public support for joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is … known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the … relationship between migration and support for EU accession in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996339
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Economic resources, financial aid and remittances
Boulanger Martel, Simon Pierre; Pelling, Lisa; … - 2018
According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total official aid to the same countries. The practice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868683