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Proficiency in the host country’s language is an important factor for the successful labor market integration of immigrants. In this study, I analyze the effects of a language training program for professional purposes on the employment opportunities of participants in Germany. I apply an...
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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of migration and remittances (that is, a .private safety net. built around solidarity within families) rather than the …
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context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set … collected at both ends of the migration link in Bolivia, we are able to show that migrant children significantly influence the … important role and the identity of the person responsible for the migration decision emerges as an important determinant of …
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This paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …
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Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise. Labour mobility has also been important in Gansu....
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Accepting that successful 'development' is premised on a population's participation in a collective undertaking, we must understand urban residents' interactions and ambitions. In African cities being transformed by geographic and social mobility, it is u
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migration for Brazil. We estimate the worker?s multichoice migration problem and document that previously unobserved employer … covariates are significant predictors associated with migration flows. Our results provide support for the idea that … globalization acts on internal migration through the growth of employment opportunities at locations with a high concentration of …
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This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early … childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shock-prone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the …?s migration has a positive effect on early cognitive development. We attribute these findings to changes in income and to the …
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One of the contentious issues about the globalization process is the mechanism by which globalization affects poverty and inequality. This paper explores one of the various strands of the globalization?inequality?poverty nexus. Using microlevel survey data from over 300 poor households in the...
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