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Exit and save : migration and saving under violence
Grun, Rebekka E. - 2009
"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult to carry to a new place. When confronted with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833409
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Impacts of international migration and remittances on child outcomes and labor supply in Indonesia : how does gender matter?
Nguyen, Trang Van; Purnamasari, Ririn Salwa - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009378506
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833500
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Migration and asset accumulation in South India : comparing gains to internal and international migration from Kerala
Seshan, Ganesh - 2020
This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted in 1998 and 2003. Migrant households as a whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241122
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Understanding decisions made on asylum applications in host countries
Issifou, Ismael - 2020
Millions of forcibly displaced people apply for asylum every year facing uncertain outcomes. What can explain cross-country heterogeneity in these outcomes? This study provides estimates of the determinants of asylum admission policies in host countries using a bilateral panel data set covering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229127
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Self-employment and migration
Barbosa, Marcelo Ponte; Costa, Leandro Oliveira - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114376
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Free primary education, fertility, and women’s access to the labor market : evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke E. - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228185
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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296897
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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans
Trako, Iva - 2019
This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059052
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Household investment under violence: the Colombian case
Grun, Rebekka E. (contributor) - 2008
"Households in rural Colombia are confronted with a variety of violent threats: attacks and displacement threats by guerrillas and paramilitaries, gang violence among drug traffickers, and high common delinquency. In this context, households have to adjust their day-to-day decisions, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758831