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Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
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position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise … the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. -- Inequality ; income distribution … ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; assimilation ; integration ; ethnosizing ; Gini-coefficient …
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excluding Baltic non-citizens, brought about significant changes in how ethnicity and citizenship affect workers' mobility. We …
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This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both … transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional … level, high prevalence of remittances is associated with a higher likelihood of informal work among non-migrant households …
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In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
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investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes. Using micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal …
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significantly affected by ethnicity; namely language and nationality. Russian speakers, as opposed to Ukrainian speakers, were …
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This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the postsocialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The...
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Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications for economic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set with fractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989 to 2002. Our...
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