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This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local wages seems to be crucial in driving such results. The...
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sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …
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focusing on their implications on migrant remittances flows in Tunisia and Morocco. Indeed, we analyze in which countries …, where individuals depend on remittances and where this dependence intersects with economic vulnerability and inadequate … (PCA), the results show that the decline in remittances will exacerbate economic difficulties during the crisis for …
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This paper uses state-level migration ow data between Mexico and the U.S. from 1999 to 2011 to investigate the migration response to climate shocks and the mitigating impact of an agricultural cash-transfer program (PROCAMPO) and a disaster fund (Fonden). Our results suggest that lower than...
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We investigate how fertility and demographic factors affect migration at the household level by assessing the causal effects of sibship size and structure on offspring's international migration. We use a rich demographic survey on the population of Mexico and exploit presumably exogenous...
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This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....
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While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...
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Theory suggests that cultural similarity increases migration flows between countries. This paper brings best practices from the trade gravity literature to migration to test this prediction. In my preferred specification, I use lags of time-varying similarity variables in a panel of...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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