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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …
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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country …
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analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
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The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members, are increasingly studied. However, comparisons of households in developing countries with and without migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity...
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the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of household members, receiving remittances …-socialist country that has recently witnessed both large-scale emigration and a rise in alcohol-related health problems. Using a large …, the emigration of family members who do not send remittances back home is associated with an increased likelihood and …
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals the emigration decision is …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
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This article contributes to immigration literature by applying a Random Utility Maximization model to derive a migration gravity model that explains factors affecting migration outflows per administrative unit and region for the country of Colombia. Negative binomial cross-sectional estimates...
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