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There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by shrinking the workforce. We study one such barrier, a policy change that excluded almost half a million Mexican bracero seasonal agricultural workers from the United States....
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By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …
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-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …
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population education; better-educated migrants; and increased migration in high-skilled jobs. Four-fifths of long-run income … origin areas. Increased income from international labor migration not only benefits migrants themselves, but also fosters …
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peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …
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flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …
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Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200 …
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, mostly immediate family. There is little evidence that the legalization increased subsequent unauthorized migration; in fact …
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benefits as well as costs. Among the former, one of the most important is lower costs for migrants' remittances. Some of the …
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in Mexico due to migration. The principal hypothesis of this study is that remittances, knowledge and experience … acquired by migrants during their migratory cycle, can be translated into larger economic growth in the out migration … activities. Economic and migration data for each municipality is used which allows to associate characteristics of communities …
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