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Migration in LDCs: Risk, Remittances, and the Family
Stark, Oded - In: Finance and Development 28 (1991) 4, pp. 39-41
Labor votes with its feet-individuals migrate from areas of low wages to areas of higher wages. That has been the traditional view, one that has spawned much policy advice to control migration and to affect the location decisions of migrant laborers. But recent research indicates that portfolio...
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Labour migration, income inequality and remittances : a case study of Mexico
Stark, Oded; Taylor, J. Edward; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 1987
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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration
Stark, Oded - 1978
The purpose of this study is to present a new piece of conceptual work which analyzes rural-to-urban migration and, in the light of this conceptual work, to examine: (a) some of the migration-related evidence; (b) interactions between rural-to-urban migration and some other key variables; (c)...
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On Slowing Metropolitan City Growth
Stark, Oded - In: Population and Development Review 6 (1980) 1, pp. 95-102
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A Note on Modelling Labour Migration in LDCs
Stark, Oded - In: The Journal of Development Studies 20 (1984) 4, pp. 318-322
Taking the family as the rural-to-urban migration decision-making unit, will the “expected-income migration model” accurately predict the level of migration? Consideration of two variables - desire for leisure, and a version to risk - serves to show that the expected-income model yields a...
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On the Role of Urban-to-Rural Remittances in Rural Development
Stark, Oded - In: The Journal of Development Studies 16 (1980) 3, pp. 369-374
light on the role of urban-to-rural remittances in bringing about technological change in the agricultural sector of these …
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Policy Repercussions of "The New Economics of the Brain Drain"
Stark, Oded - In: Ekonomista (2010) 6, pp. 831-840
In this paper I delineate novel policy repercussions suggested by my research on “The New Economics of the Brain Drain”. In section 1, I provide a succinct account of the model that inspires the derivation of several new policy implications. In sections 2 through 5, I present the policy...
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Reasons for Remitting
Stark, Oded - 2009
This paper presents a set of reflections on what gives rise to remittances, which constitute a major part of the impact …
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Remittances, exchange rates and the labor supply of Mexican Migrants in the U.S.
Fox, Marc; Stark, Oded - 1987
This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their … family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits … in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a given real volume of remittances back to the family in the sending …
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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...
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