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Remittances and the impact on crime in Mexico
Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio Rivas, René - 2014
This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease...
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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European … countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …
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Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times
Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021
How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...
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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
determinants and human capital on migration and vice versa. The period under analysis is 2005-2019 and considers mobility from five …
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Responses to temperature shocks : labor markets and migration decisions in El Salvador
Ibáñez, Ana María; Quigua, Juliana; Romero, Jimena; … - 2022
temperatures have negatively affected agricultural production and increased international migration from El Salvador. We find that …
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Local education spending and migration : evidence from a large redistribution program
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024
migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that …
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Bilateral India-Pakistan agricultural trade : trends, composition and opportunities
Chand, Ramesh; Saxena, Raka - 2014
The paper examines the trend and composition of agricultural trade between Indian and Pakistan and identifies opportunities for increasing bilateral trade. It examines the bilateral agriculture trade before and after the implementation of SAFTA. The study also analyses the comparative advantage...
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A 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bhutan with a detailed representation of the agricultural sector
Feuerbacher, Arndt; Dukpa, Chencho; Grethe, Harald - 2017
This paper develops a 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bhutan with a detailed representation of the agricultural sector. Given the availability of extensive household, labour force and agricultural survey data as well as a large dataset of audited company reports, a bottom-up approach is...
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classesas the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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