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Financial Education for Migrants and their Families
Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2015
Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...
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Does religion matter? Exploring economic performance differences among Romanian emigrants
Roman, Monica; Goschin, Zizi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Although migration and religion have traditionally developed as two separate research topics, in the current context of globalization and trans-nationalism attention begins to focus on the way they interconnect. Religion received little attention in Romanian studies on migration undertaken so...
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Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. …
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"Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration: Does the Gender of the Migrant Matter?"
DeSilva, Sanjaya - Levy Economics Institute - 2013
economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …
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The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico
Hamilton, Erin R.; Choi, Kate H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 278-286
, remittances are beneficial. We extend this work by considering a different measure of infant health in addition to LBW: macrosomia …-migration, receipt of remittances, and return migration) and the risk of LBW and macrosomia. We examine this association using two sets … potential sources of endogeneity. Whereas community remittances and return migration are associated with lower risk of LBW, they …
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Housing Markets and Migration : Evidence from New Zealand
Stillman, Steven - 2008
New Zealand's large and volatile external migration flows generate significant year-to-year fluctuations in the demand for residential housing. This paper uses population data from the 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Censuses, house sales price data from Quotable Value New Zealand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724040
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Policy Lessons from the Mexican American Experience, 1848 to the Present
Kutty, Nandinee K. - 2008
The historical experience of Mexican Americans from 1848 till the present period provides a rich understanding of this large and growing segment of the U.S. population, and suggests several useful public policy lessons. These lessons can help us design appropriate policies to create a more...
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Homeownership and Labour Market Behaviour : Interpreting the Evidence
Rouwendal, Jan - 2007
This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald's thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729870
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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact has been Underestimated
Schiff, Maurice - 2007
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778517
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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
Munch, Jakob Roland - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...
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