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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398473
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. -- child labor ; emigration ; transfers ; Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008658
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810057
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. -- child labor ; emigration ; transfers ; Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238596
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2014
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068223
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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
roles ?other people? play in influencing an individual?s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261996
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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262704
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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate
Epstein, Gil S. - 2002
We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generate herd behavior. Herd behavior is compared with the network externalities explanation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262802