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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for … sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …
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The Philippine government has focused most of its migration policy initiatives to encouraging international labour … migration and protecting the rights of Filipino migrant workers. However, government interventions and aids to left … migration on the welfare of left-behind children in the Philippines so that policies can be devised to support them. This study …
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-by-year fixed effects. The results are also consistent after employing comprehensive measures of connectedness, employing matching …
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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and …
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spousal chain migration occurred. We also find that highly educated Chinese immigrants benefited in the marriage market in …
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Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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form of well planned and organized migration flows that, while responding to the quantitative and qualitative needs of …
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We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …
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gain (𝐵𝐺) have been studied extensively while 𝐴𝐷 has not, I examine migration's impact on ability (𝑎) as well as on …; ii) Migration reduces (raises) home country residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact … fraction of our estimate. Thus, in order to correctly assess the impact of skilled migration, home and host countries …
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This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
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