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Legal identity and access to the state in South Africa
Nsabimana, Aimable; Pleace, Michelle; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2024
Legal identity is an important aspect of securing access to public services, such as education, healthcare, and social protection services, including child support grants. In the South African context, in the post-apartheid period, many poor South Africans benefited from wellorganized civil...
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Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980-2015
Stempel, Carl; Alemi, Qais - 2018
physical and mental disability resulting from pre-migration and migration traumas, and inability to develop occupational niches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943856
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146587
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The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective
Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2017
This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688556
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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 … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …
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 … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943842
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Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon
Tamwo, Sévérin; Gandjon Fankem, Ghislain Stéphane; … - 2022
In this paper, we examine the determinants of the entrepreneurial behaviour of returnees to Cameroon based on original survey data from 2012. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the skills received from abroad without omitting the effect of savings. We distinguish between three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472608
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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 …
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
Using height as a proxy for physical productivity of labour, this paper estimates the selection of Mexican migration to … impact of random shocks on short-run shifts in selection into migration. The results suggest that the first Mexican migrants … of migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146512
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Securitized reception: Revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants
Su, Phi Hong; Hakimi, Hameed - 2021
In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and … revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue that resulted from that earlier project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807498