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insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …
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The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural … relative concerns with respect to income and remittances. Our results show that although rural households experience … substantial utility loss due to income comparisons, they gain utility by comparing their remittances with those received by their …
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, and then return home or move on, often multiple times. Sending countries benefit from remittances while workers are abroad …
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, and then return home or move on, often multiple times. Sending countries benefit from remittances while workers are abroad …
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Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor flows. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of circular movements for all parties. It studies the characteristics of circular movers worldwide and...
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, and then return home or move on, often multiple times. Sending countries benefit from remittances while workers are abroad …
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Purpose: Introduce a new field and suggest a new research agenda.Findings: Diaspora economics is more than a new word for migration economics. It opens a new strand to political economy. Diaspora is perceived to be a well-defined group of migrants and their offspring with a joined cultural...
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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