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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
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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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023
villages of Mozambique using a randomized field experiment. We find that mobile money increased migration out of these villages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296845
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Rural households in a changing climate
Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo; Kronick, Dorothy; … - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734762
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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain
Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861086
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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection,and High School Graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861188
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861384
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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison ofCensus-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
McKenzie, David J.; Mistiaen, Johan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
migration on sending families. We report the results of an experimentdesigned to compare the performance of three alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861387
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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Marshallian vs Jacobs Effects: Which One Is Stronger? Evidence for Russia Unemployment Dynamics
Demidova, Olga; Kolyagina, Alena; Pastore, Francesco - 2018
This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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