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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 …-migrants enables them to earn as much in low-skill jobs abroad as more educated workers relocating within India can …
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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...
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Migration, school attainment and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan
Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006
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Migration in Libya : a spatial network analysis
Di Maio, Michele; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; Molini, Vasco - Weltbankgruppe - 2020
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses this unique source of data, combining several techniques...
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Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program
Mobarak, Mushfiq; Sharif, Iffath A.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2020
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male...
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India's internal labor migration paradox : the statistical and the real
Nayyar, Gaurav; Kim, Kyoung Yang - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other … analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the migration …
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Internal borders and migration in India
Kone, Zovanga L.; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2017
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Asymmetric information about migrant earnings and remittance flows
Seshan, Ganesh; Zubrickas, Robertas - 2015
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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...
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