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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …
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We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …
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the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …
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for women, and the gap is also much smaller in wage-employment than self-employment and unpaid family work for both … native-refugee gap in men's employment in Turkey (in favor of natives) is much smaller than that reported for most developed … countries. Moreover, men's employment peaks quite early (one year) after arrival and remains there, whereas women's employment …
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university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education …
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This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …
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We explore the relation between variability in the rate of return to human capital and investment in education in the … context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to … human capital can induce residents of developing countries to make greater investments in education. Moreover, providing …
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We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers … in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We characterize migrants' occupations along …. We show that our measure of employment risk closely predicts actual employment losses observed in European countries …
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