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high poverty rate in the country. -- Haiti ; education ; remittances ; migration … receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the …Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the …
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receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the …Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the … effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly modeled in previous literature. The results suggest that remittances …
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We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances are then compared with those based on a no-migration scenario. Counterfactual household incomes are estimated, taking …
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dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
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proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …
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proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation – using dollars to …
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inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … migrants sur la pauvreté et l'inégalité de leur pays d'origine jusqu'à récemment, notamment en Haïti. Le montant connu des … fonds envoyés en Haïti par la diaspora haïtienne a dépassé la barre d'un milliard de dollars américain en 2004 et suscite …
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
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household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards …
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ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas … entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. …
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