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Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human … norms. For this special issue, we present a selection of frontier migration-and-development research that instantiates these …
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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financial resources of the countries they leave. This paper critiques existing policy proposals to address the development …
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-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
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literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
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Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with … compassionate and political sentiments without clear evidence that the regulations achieve the desired development goals and avoid …
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Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human … norms. For this special issue, we present a selection of frontier migration-and-development research that instantiates these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011077557
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets …
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Very few labor-based pathways for regular migration are available for people in Northern Central America, often called the 'Northern Triangle' of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. This note briefly summarizes the state of labor-based migration channels in the region. It then argues that...
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Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … country-specific, historically-grounded goals. But a country's broader development strategy outside the classroom matters much …
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