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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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The making of a lost generation: Child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet - 2021
Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012628457
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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Brain drain and development traps
Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011
This paper links the two fields of 'development traps' and 'brain drain'. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335994
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? Evidence from the MENA countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysit; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060198
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Child growth and refugee status: Evidence from Syrian migrants in Turkey
Demirci, Murat; Foster, Andrew D.; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022
This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view toward understanding the need for targeted programs addressing child well-being among the refugee population, we analyze, in particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014541014
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How Berlin attracts the Turkish "New Wave": Comparison of economic and socio-cultural pull factors for highly skilled immigrants
Oğuzhan Okumuş, Mehmet - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of economic and socio-cultural pull factors on migration decisions of graduate students and highly skilled professionals with a specific focus on recent highly skilled Turkish immigration in Berlin. The main hypotheses of this study are that economic factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215453
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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003
We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our model is that we take into account the impact of migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204735
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Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico
Mckenzie, David; Rapoport, Hillel - 2004
lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower inequality. This paper shows both theoretically and empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204742