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This paper investigates the impact of skilled immigrants on the welfare the host natives. By employing the idea of induced technical change, and the skilled wage premium, this paper tries to link skilled immigration with observed rise in college enrolment, rise in skilled wages, and further...
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This paper examines the relationship between the education level of Spanish emigrants and their country of destination … destination countries can be due to dissimilarities in their level of education. To explore this, we use census microdata covering …
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migration rate, the mortality and birth rates, the unemployment rate, the real earnings, the secondary and tertiary education … the early 1990s has already reduced the population. On top of this, there is the migration of the work force - most of the …
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educational vulnerability and capability formation. They are deprived of basic education and therefore become bonded to the low … Bardhaman district of West Bengal, this paper attempts to explore issues related to parental migration and condition of the … policies taken by Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan in ensuring education of these migrant children has also been examined. Children are …
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paper also develops and illustrates a framework for estimating an education place premium, and discusses how it is related … to per natural measures. The peoples of the least developed countries stand to gain the most from international migration …, but there are potentially significant gains to migration between developing countries as well. …
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The article discusses the economic and political position of the Czech republic as an EU member state and comments on its potential future problems related to a greater expansion of the EU.
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Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...
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The present paper is motivated by the interest of a more thorough analysis of the determinants of remittances for developing countries. Thus, a simple formal remittance behaviour model is provided in which the amounts of the sums transferred are negatively related to the migrants’ individual...
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Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living … migration of due to Push factors will decrease while that due to Pull factors will increase. One of the important facets of … migration in Indian context, recent studies on migration in India have focussed mainly on rural-urban migration or on migration …
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This study exploits a new longitudinal dataset to examine selective migration among 1,500 Kenyan youth originally … living in rural areas. We examine whether migration rates are related to individual “ability”, broadly defined to include … attainment as a proxy for cognitive ability, we employ an arguably preferable measure, a pre-migration primary school academic …
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