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This paper investigates the determinants in migrants’ choice of payment channel when transferring money to relatives abroad. We surveyed 1,680 migrants in the Netherlands, identifying five remittance channels: bank services, money transfer operator (MTO) services, in-cash transfers via...
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If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted...
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While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...
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While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this paper provides a modeling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272291
This paper investigates misspecified estimation and model selection criteria derived from the 'Information Criterion (see Akaike (1973))' for qualitative choice models. Four estimators for the 'Information Criterion' are derived for general qualitative choice models. Two of these estimators were...
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developing mutual identity of this region. Regionalization and balanced regional development are here main criterion for … to examine the possibilities of regionalization and balanced regional development of geo-area Southeast Europe, in …
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freight corridor nº4, could greatly benefit from ?port regionalization? into bordering regions of Spain, the Madrid Community … service providers operating in Portugal are also identified. The strategies for promoting ?port regionalization? adopted by … improvements in the regionalization of Portuguese ports, taken as an enhancer of economic growth. …
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robust pace over the past 25 years. The process of economic integration could be aptly described as "regionalization" or …
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highlights how these concepts hint not only at a shift of global power but also at geopolitical regionalization: according to the …
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academic discourse, many economists focused, from the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to globalization, on regionalization - the …
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