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Split decisions: Family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291333
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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
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105625
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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653276
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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of …A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744640
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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
poverty. Due to diffusion of migration experience and assistance through social networks, violence can cause waves of …A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of … and child migration to the United States using novel, individual-level, anonymized data on all 178,825 U.S. apprehensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715876
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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612941
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The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744518
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Split decisions : family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2012
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas … entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. -- migration ; households ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672252
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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2012
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096767
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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2013
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly …-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081686