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How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions : A Natural Experiment in Jordan
Nowrasteh, Alex - 2019
To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little evidence of how immigration affects the economic...
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
Immigrants in Rome or Paris are more visible to the public eye than the Italian or French engineers in Silicon Valley, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high-income countries. This paper argues that such public fears,...
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Transit Migration : All Roads Lead to America
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
The paths of many migrants include multiple destinations and transit routes, yet this pattern is almost never reflected in empirical analyses. For example, 9 percent of recent immigrants to the United States arrived from a transit country as opposed to the country where they were born. Among...
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Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper focuses on the relative and aggregate effects of these three forces on wages across...
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Conditional Cash Transfers and Female Schooling : The Impact of the Female School Stipend Program on Public School Enrollments in Punjab, Pakistan
Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2017
Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab,...
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Women in Forestry in India
de Melo, Martha - 2017
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Watta Satta : Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan
Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2016
of women and their families. The authors study the pervasive marriage custom of watta satta in rural Pakistan, a bride …
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Soft Skills for Hard Constraints : Evidence from High-Achieving Female Farmers
Montalvao, Joao - 2020
This paper documents the positive link between the noncognitive skills of women farmers and the adoption of a cash crop … is not explained by differences across women in education and cognitive skills. It is also not explained by the fact that … women with higher noncognitive ability tend to be married to husbands of higher noncognitive ability and education. The …
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Are Women Less Productive Farmers? How Markets and Risk Affect Fertilizer Use, Productivity, and Measured Gender Effects in Uganda
Larson, Donald F. - 2020
African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Female Entrepreneurship
Fang, Sheng - 2019
associated with female entrepreneurship (that is, a firm being managed and at least partly owned by women), along with other … entrepreneurship rises with foreign direct investment inflow, lower entry barriers for women, women's better access to finance, higher … female labor force participation, and women's better education. The positive association of foreign direct investment inflow …
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