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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2010
This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322610
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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365
Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …
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Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? - Working Paper 366
Clemens, Michael; McKenzie, David - 2014
While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory—arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …
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Explaining the Mexican-American health paradox using selectivity effects
Téllez, Ernesto Aguayo; Martínez, José N.; … - 2015
While typically socioeconomically disadvantaged, Mexican migrants in the United States tend to have better health outcomes than non-Hispanic Whites. This phenomenon is known as the Hispanic Health Paradox. Using data from Mexico and the United States, we examine several health outcomes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445085
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How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s? A Dynamic and Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries - Working Paper 375
Sumner, Andy; Vázquez, Sergio Tezanos - 2014
Many existing classifications of developing countries are dominated by income per capita (such as the World Bank’s low, middle, and high income thresholds), thus neglecting the multidimensionality of the concept of ‘development’. Even those deemed to be the main ‘alternatives’ to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839525
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Why it Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank-Updated October 2003
Birdsall, Nancy - 2003
Increasing integration has made the great challenge of reducing poverty and advancing human development more achievable than ever, and more dependent than ever on good global economic governance. In this paper I set out the economic logic for why good global economic governance matters for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005509599
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272622
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Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? - Working Paper 264
Clemens, Michael - 2011
Large numbers of people born in poor countries would like to leave those countries, but barriers prevent their emigration. Those barriers, according to economists’ best estimates to date, cost the world economy much more than all remaining barriers to the international movement of goods and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277246
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Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment
Clemens, Michael; Chand, Satish - 2008
Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration prospects induce human capital formation. We analyze a unique natural quasi-experiment in the Republic of the Fiji Islands, where political shocks have provoked one of the largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200926
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The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border
Clemens, Michael; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2008
We compare the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States—controlling for country of birth, country of education, years of education, work experience, sex, and ruralurban residence. This is made possible by new and uniquely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200929