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labor in comparable households that differ solely in their access to remittances. We find that remittances have in general … failed to mitigate household reliance on child labor in Punjab. However, the impact depends critically on whether remittances …, internal remittances increase the labor force participation of the youngest children in the 5-11 age group, with girls being …
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This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy change implemented in the 1990s, which tightened the entry requirements for a subgroup of applicants. We use a mix of a conditional difference-in-differences and OLS estimator...
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sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …
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those in the first cohort, though the policy change has no discernible effect on the level of remittances. …
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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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The idea of selling membership into society is not new, but it has taken on new life with the recent proliferation globally of Immigrant Investor Programs (IIPs). These programs involve the sale of national membership privileges to wealthy foreigners. They are justified by attractive policy...
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There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined as the number of children per woman, is used as...
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China introduced its world-famous One-Child Policy in 1979. However, its fertility appears to have declined even faster in the early 1970s than it did after 1979. In this study, we highlight the importance of the Family Planning Leading Group in understanding the fertility decline since the...
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elsewhere. Our study investigates the effect of remittances on the likelihood a household vaccinate its children against polio … isolate the effect of receiving remittances using distance and exact matching. We find that access to remittances increases ….5 percentage points. Unfortunately, remittances do not significantly improve vaccinations of girls. The results imply that …
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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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