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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate … associated with an increase in the marriage rate. Our results support various channels through which emigration of household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688599
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Diaspora externalities: A view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943832
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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys
Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018
This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status across six new harmonized surveys from three Arab countries: Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). We link individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943842
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslihan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - 2021
Climate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies investigate whether households send a migrant after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705329
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Trans-border land acquisitions: A new guise of outsourcing and host country effects
Das, Gouranga - 2012
The rush for land acquisition - primarily driven by food shortages, food price volatility, and the run for agrofuel - has drawn considerable attention, as documented by reports published in late 2009, 2010, and 2011. Terminological differences aside, it is - quite distinct from material or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319823
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The international circulation of elites: Knowledge, entrepreneurial and political
Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010
International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280178
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Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Lopez-Alonso, Moramay - 2019
belonged to the upper ranks of the height distribution of the Mexican working class. Additionally, the financial crisis of 1907 … crisis, migrants were positively selected relative to the military elite of the time. During the crisis, migrants became … negatively selected, but returned to a stronger positive selection after the crisis. The shift to a less positive selection was …
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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influences
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019
Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...
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Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with India
Gradín, Carlos; Wu, Binbin - 2019
We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than expenditure in India, especially at the top of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146542
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Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in India
Baranwal, Gunja - 2016
skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653935