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Remittances and the brain drain: Evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559321
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The Purpose of Remittances – Evidence from Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265815
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The Purpose of Remittances – Evidence from Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias G. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036045
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Determinants of Savings and Remittances – Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
Sinning, Mathias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2007
, remittances are higher if close relatives live in the sending country. Finally,Vuong-tests indicate that the double-hurdle model … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants’ savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738722
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Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015
, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412772
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Computational Economic Modeling of Migration
Klabunde, Anna - 2014
In this paper an agent-based model of endogenously evolving migrant networks is developed to identify the determinants of migration and return decisions. Individuals are connected by links, the strength of which declines over time and distance. Methodologically, this paper combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332851
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - 2011
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratifi cation literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333056
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The impact of cultural diversity on the German housing market
Bayar, Mehmet - 2016
This paper documents a positive impact of cultural diversity and cultural similarity on rental prices of the German districts for the years between 2004 and 2013. On the one hand, an increase of the Herfindahl index as a measure for cultural diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011567128
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Individualism vs. collectivism: How inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017
The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market returns to their different cultural traits, however, have been rarely researched within the economic literature. This study provides insight on the link between the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594110
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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration
Lumpe, Claudia - 2017
This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country's population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011649432