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This paper examines the cyclical interactions between the remittances of Turkish workers in Germany and output in both … country affects the direction and strength of the relation between remittances and the host and home countries' business …
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This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, "born?urban residents, and "acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...
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This paper approaches the migrant’s motivation to remit from a new, behavioural perspective. We apply the well-established Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) using a structural equation model for the first time for this specific research question. Our micro-dataset stems from a 2009/10 survey,...
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Analysis of a poll of nine of the major remittance recipient countries in order to understand the market of remittances …
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, generating sizable amounts of foreign exchange receipts through the remittances these guest workers have transferred back home …. In some instances, however, the share of remittances in foreign exchange receipts has risen so high as to cause concern … remittances. Despite the importance of implications of the volatility of remittance receipts, the current literature severely …
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Analysis of a poll of nine of the major remittance recipient countries in order to understand the market of remittances …
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This report is a comparative study of worldwide transfer costs to nine countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and specifically at costs for immigrants to send money from major sending countries including from the United States. It also compares these international trends with costs and trends of...
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This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the...
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