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In this paper we analyze the main determinants of migrant’s remittances by measuring directly the role of non observable variables related to subjective motivations and historical context of the emigration process. Subjective variables, such as attachment feeling and intent to return to the...
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This paper explores the impact of Malian migrants' Home Town Associations (HTAs) located in France on the provision of local public goods in Mali. To this end, we compute an original dataset on all the HTAs that have been created by Malian migrants in France since 1981 and geo-localize their...
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Migration flows are often thought of as stemming from a reserve army of labour from developing countries, putting … migration flows among European countries and stresses their diversity through a combination of labour market factors in … the dynamics of European migration flows. The second part estimates a reduced form of model of the relative determinants …
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. Although migrants form more than three quarters of the active population in Nairobi, migration has not had a specific impact on … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants and the final use of remittances of migrants settled in France sending remittances to the southern Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan African countries. Research using microdata is very scarce in this region; we rely on a specially designed survey (2MO) we...
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labour informality, self-employment, internal (rural-urban) and international migration, and labour force discouragement. It …
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earnings equations estimated for each country. We find that migration behaviour has a significant effect in shaping earnings …
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We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human capital characteristics, returns to education and experience...
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