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Emigration and development : what are the links?

Murat, Marina - 2021

grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 …. The stage of development at home also affects the main destinations of emigration. Immigration into rich economies … increases from countries at intermediate levels of development. Hence, policies supporting development in low-income countries …

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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

even return home at some time with better human capital. Functioning diasporas can lead to stable factors of development …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … an effective development policy. …

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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2021

The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this...

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Social remittances

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline - 2020

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, behaviours and norms that are transmitted through...

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...

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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019

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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Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada

Aziz, Nusrate; Mahar, Gerry - 2019

This study estimates the impact of interprovincial and international migration on interprovincial trade using annual data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. We apply both the gravity and the spatial trade models for estimation using a number of panel estimators. We find that the endogeneity...

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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics

Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019

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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?

Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019

In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...

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