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More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Ibanez, Ana Maria; Rozo, … - 2023
How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377073
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More Benefits, Fewer Children : How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Ibanez, Ana; Rozo, Sandra; … - 2023
How do policies that ease the integration of immigrants shape their fertility decisions? We use a panel survey of undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia to compare the fertility decisions of households before and after the launch of an amnesty program that granted such migrants a labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356272
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Chapter 23. Regional Studies : Latin America and the Caribbean
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1261-1302). 2015
This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean …. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the factors that have motivated the out-migration of Latin Americans to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025427
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Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Georges, Annie; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
effect among children living in households that do not experience any family out-migration. Our finding underscores the … simultaneous and opposing impacts of household out-migration and remittance receipt on children’s schooling. While the receipt of … effect of household out-migration imposes an economic burden on the remaining household members and reduces their likelihood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822455
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Migration, remittances and children's schooling in Haiti
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Georges, Annie; Pozo, Susan - 2008
effect among children living in households that do not experience any family out-migration. Our finding underscores the … simultaneous and opposing impacts of household out-migration and remittance receipt on children's schooling. While the receipt of … effect of household out-migration imposes an economic burden on the remaining household members and reduces their likelihood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268794
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Internal Mobility after the Expansion of the Welfare State: Evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina - 2018
place by the 2000s. At the same time, internal migration rates dropped to less than 0.3 percent -among the lowest in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532899
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Does Immigration Raise Natives’ Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
How immigration affects the labor market of the host country is a topic of major concern for many immigrant-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the impact of immigration on Spanish natives’ income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822870
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Remittances and Income Smoothing
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868123
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Remittances and Income Smoothing
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317954
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When Do Remittances Facilitate Asset Accumulation? The Importance of Remittance Income Uncertainty
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households, while accounting for the level of transfers from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795364