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Overseas Employment and Remittances to a Dual Economy
McCormick, Barry; Wahba, Jackline - 1999
Overseas employment has become more commonplace, and the remittances have increased in similar proportions. For poor … countries, remittances often substantially influence domestic expenditures and real exchange rates. We study overseas employment …, remittances and domestic underemployment in a simple general equilibrium model with a non-traded good and minimum wage. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179294
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Illegal migration, wages, and remittances : semi-parametric estimation of illegality effects
Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline - 2009
We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of legal and illegal migration, and the resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908516
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Illegal Migration, Wages, and Remittances : Semi-Parametric Estimation of Illegality Effects
Schluter, Christian - 2009
We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of legal and illegal migration, and the resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154989
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Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind
Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019
We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059100
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Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind
Wahba, Jackline - 2019
We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868810
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Sons or daughters? : the impact of children's migration on the health and well-being of parents left behind
Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019
We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019306
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Entrepreneurship of the left-behind
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to individuals who did not migrate. Using a unique dataset that provides information on both...
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Who benefits from return migration to developing countries?
Wahba, Jackline - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Return migration can have multiple benefits. It allows migrants who have accumulated savings abroad to ease credit constraints at home and set up a business. Also, emigrants from developing countries who have invested in their human capital may earn higher wages when they return. However,...
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Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2013
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329157
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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2014
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...
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