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Financial consequences of identity theft : evidence from Consumer Credit Bureau records
Blascak, Nathan; Cheney, Julia; Hunt, Robert M.; … - 2018
This paper examines how a negative shock to the security of personal finances due to severe identity theft changes consumer credit behavior. Using a unique data set of consumer credit records and alerts indicating identity theft and the exogenous timing of victimization, we show that the...
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Financial education for migrants and their families
Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - 2015
Money remitted by international migrants is a major source of income for many countries around the world, exceeding all international development funds combined. Yet individual migrants and their families are often amongst the most vulnerable people in society, and many face significant barriers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404036
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Consumer Use and Government Regulation of Title Pledge Lending
Zywicki, Todd J. - 2010
Recent years have seen growth in the use of certain types of nontraditional lending products, such as payday lending and auto title lending, and a relative decline of others, such as finance companies and pawnbrokers. Congress is currently considering major new regulations on short-term lending...
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Return migrants and the wage premium: does the legal status of migrants matter?
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wahba, Jackline - 2021
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of international migration, documented versus undocumented, we...
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Meet the need for inclusive urbanization in China : migrants' urban housing demand along their socio-economic transition
Gottschalch, Sören - 2015
China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation … the main drivers of urbanization, and that provides migrants with greater urban socio-economic opportunities, improves … working paper: "Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met", by specifying the underlying forces of …
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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met
Gottschalch, Sören - 2013
As it has rightfully been recognized by China's central government, successful urbanization will be decisive for the … nation's future development. Key challenges will be to realize urbanization economies, improve production and innovation … population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190162
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Climate change, inequality, and human migration
Burzyńskia, Michał; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, … - 2019
. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118293
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Immigration in Emerging Countries : A Macroeconomic Perspective
Arias, Agustín - 2020
Roughly one third of migrants worldwide reside in developing countries, yet most papers on the macroeconomic effects of immigration focus on advanced economies. We investigate the medium- and long-term effects of immigration in an emerging country, considering a salient feature of this type of...
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Does Brazil Support Development in West Africa? the Example of Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal
Kohnert, Dirk - 2023
French Abstract: [Le Brésil, soutient-il le développement en Afrique de l'Ouest ? L'exemple du Nigeria, du Ghana et du Sénégal] – Les relations étrangères et commerciales du Brésil avec l'Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) remontent à la traite négrière portugaise. Sur les 9,5 millions de...
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Le Brésil, soutient-il le développement en Afrique de l'Ouest ? L'exemple du Nigeria, du Ghana et du Sénégal [Does Brazil Support Development in West Africa? The Example of Nigeria...
Kohnert, Dirk - 2023
Portuguese Abstract: [O Brasil apoia o desenvolvimento da África Ocidental? O exemplo da Nigéria, Gana e Senegal] -As relações externas e comerciais do Brasil com a África Subsaariana (ASS) remontam ao comércio português de escravos. Dos 9,5 milhões de pessoas capturadas na África e...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350190