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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
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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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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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
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Long-term benefits from temporary migration: Does the gender of the migrant matter?
DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2013
economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318675
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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème": Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336061
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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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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015
mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028369
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The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality: A technical articulation for Asia-Pacific
Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016
Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784649
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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development
Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007
This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807601
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Land, poverty and human development in Kenya
wa Githinji, Mwangi - 2011
The question of poverty has become central to the work of development economists in the last decade and a half. The 2000 World Development Report was entitled Attacking Poverty and the UN held a series of World Conferences in the 1990s, all of which addressed in some form or fashion the problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287846