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Does Quality Matter in Labour Input? The Changing Pattern of Labour Composition in New Zealand
Szeto, Kam Leong; McLoughlin, Simon - 2008
The composition of the New Zealand workforce has changed considerably over the past two decades. Qualification levels have risen, labour force participation has trended upwards for women, immigrants have increasingly been sourced from Asia, and the large baby-boom cohort has contributed to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115606
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A critical discussion of the motivations to remit in Albania and Moldova
Hagen-Zanker, Jessica; Siegel, Melissa - 2008
Albania and Moldova, two countries that experience high migration and remittance flows, using household survey data. We focus … isolation. It is apparent that the causes and patterns of migration in Albania and Moldova influence the remitting behaviour and … why remittances are sent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470834
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
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The effects of migration and remittances in rural Moldova
Hristev, Eugene; Mincu, Georgeta; Sandu, Maya; … - 2009
opportunities in the country is an important reason for migration. Those who obtain remittances tend to have higher share of …Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most … visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430831
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Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya
Hines, Annie Laurie; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2018
This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931800
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The development gap between the CIS and EU
Sinitsina, Irina; Atamanov, Aziz; Chubrik, Alexander; … - 2008
Current report aims to identify major existing gaps in the five socio-economic dimensions (economic, human, openness, environmental, and institutional) and to reveal those gaps which could potentially hinder social and economic integration of neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326590
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Financial constraints, migration and inequality
Assunção, Juliano J.; Carvalho, Leandro S. - 2005
high levels of migration premium and return to education in the source country explain the migration of middle …-class individuals, a situation in which migration increases in- equality in the home country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807324
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Human capital formation, asymmetric information, and the dynamics of international migration
Stark, Oded; Chau, Nancy H. - 1998
We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We … point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure … several interesting results. First, while migration is pursued by the relatively high-skilled, subsequent return migrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291755