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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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This study examines current land access and livelihood choices of rural youth in Southern Ethiopia. We found that youth in rural south have limited access to agricultural land because of land scarcity and land market restrictions. We hypothesize that this forces the youth to abandon agriculture...
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While reasons for out-migration are relatively well understood, little is known about why people return to their rural … the patterns and determinants of return migration, and we find that return is largely associated with unsuccessful … migration. For men, return is linked to poor job-market outcomes at the migration destination, and for women, to the ending of …
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This paper investigates the interaction of migration, vulnerability to poverty, and welfare of rural households in … quality of life?, and (3) What is the effect of migration on rural household’s welfare and vulnerability to poverty? The … migrants from 2010. The empirical evidence from a probit model shows that migration, especially migration for employment, is a …
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This paper analyzes the impact of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African or other countries) on investment and poverty in Ghana. It has three findings. First, when compared to what they would have spent without the receipt of remittances, households...
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Remittances are used by households for insurance, investment, and income. Flows from internal migrants are relatively understudied in Africa, where migrants are less likely to remit to their origin households. We use a unique matched migrant sample to study what drives the low remittance rates...
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between Mexicans’ intention to migrate and their subsequent migration behavior using the two waves of the Mexican Family Life … various shocks likely to affect the migration decision, I find that women’s probability to carry out their migration plans is … migration plans are due to female-specific costs and constraints. …
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seek employment. These varied motives are considered in an environment of economic recovery, with migration motivations … including personal security, migration in search of higher expected earnings, and migration in search of less risky economic … environments. We address these questions using a panel grouped data set on net migration between Kazakhstan and Russia during 1999 …
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developing world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate-induced migration. We use event history methods and a … over a 10-year period. The results indicate that men’s labor migration increases with drought and that land-poor households … hybrid narrative of environmentally-induced migration that recognizes multiple dimensions of adaptation to environmental …
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