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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761992
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527305
conditions in the source country prior to migration rather than deficits in access to maternal and child health services within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296563
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this purpose, in the context of the largest refugee group in the...
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regions that are internationally connected and have better access to education. Conversely, human capital responses are … educational opportunities. These results extend to internal migration, implying that highly vulnerable populations are trapped in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469661
We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …
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theoretical arguments regarding the role of migration networks and/or the dynamics of wealth transmission between successive …
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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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