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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation … versus no assimilation between the groups. …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation … versus no assimilation between the groups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695852
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The 'corrected' impact that does take the change in household …
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Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration … find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration …
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Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...
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This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in Colombia around a specified eligibility date in 2018....
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migration patterns across dozens of historical episodes. Using this framework as a lens, we survey the growing literature on the …
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How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor...
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