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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726722
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734317
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2013
intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086661
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129930
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Migrant networks as a basis for social control: Remittance incentives among Senegalese in France and Italy
Chort, Isabelle; Gubert, Flore; Senne, Jean-Noël - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 858-874
, migrant networks may well have a great influence on remittances to their home country and particularly to their origin …, remittances may be a fee that migrants pay to get access to network services. In this paper, we thus analyze to what extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052353
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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666620
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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the scale and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We develop a three-level nested multinomial logit migration model. Our model accommodates varying degrees of similarity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132890
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Remittances in the Republic of Georgia: Correlates, Economic Impact, and Social Capital Formation
Gerber, Theodore; Torosyan, Karine - In: Demography 50 (2013) 4, pp. 1279-1301
The economic impact of remittances on migrant-sending countries has been a subject of debate in the scholarly … Republic of Georgia receives remittances. We then apply propensity score matching to estimate how remittances affect particular … subsample of households with a migrant currently abroad distinguishes the effects of remittances from the effects of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010993170
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The Macroeconomic Determinants of Remittance Flows from Russia to Tajikistan
Sultonov, Mirzosaid - In: Transition Studies Review 19 (2013) 4, pp. 417-430
Within the two decades of transition to market economy interdependence of the former Soviet Union countries is continuing. Labour migration between Russia and the former Soviet Union republics is one of the examples of this relationship. This paper defines the macroeconomic determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010994574
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Migration, remittances and household welfare in Ethiopia
Andersson L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856390