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youths to rural areas across the country. The movement's coercive features, together with strict restrictions on migration …
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We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...
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and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
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Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …
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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …
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takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …-skilled jobs. This suggests possible time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long …
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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
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STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...
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We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were...
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This article is the first to systematically study whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a...
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