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Financial Education for Migrants and their Families
Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 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...
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The Effects of Migration and Remittances in Rural Moldova
Hristev, Eugene; Mincu, Georgeta; Sandu, Maya; … - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009
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 … that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total amount being sent to the country. The way remittances are distributed …
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Does religion matter? Exploring economic performance differences among Romanian emigrants
Roman, Monica; Goschin, Zizi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Although migration and religion have traditionally developed as two separate research topics, in the current context of globalization and trans-nationalism attention begins to focus on the way they interconnect. Religion received little attention in Romanian studies on migration undertaken so...
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Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. …
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Where Did All the Remittances Go? Understanding the Impact of Remittances on Consumption Patterns in Rural China
Zhu, Yu; Wu, Zhongmin; Peng, Liquan; Sheng, Laiyun - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2009
We focus on the impact of migrants’ remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which … remittances as permanent income and are consistent with the prevalence of circular and repeat migration which is largely caused by …
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"Long-Term Benefits from Temporary Migration: Does the Gender of the Migrant Matter?"
DeSilva, Sanjaya - Levy Economics Institute - 2013
economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …
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The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico
Hamilton, Erin R.; Choi, Kate H. - In: Social Science & Medicine 132 (2015) C, pp. 278-286
, remittances are beneficial. We extend this work by considering a different measure of infant health in addition to LBW: macrosomia …-migration, receipt of remittances, and return migration) and the risk of LBW and macrosomia. We examine this association using two sets … potential sources of endogeneity. Whereas community remittances and return migration are associated with lower risk of LBW, they …
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Deteminants of interregional migration in Spain: new analysis techniques
Maza, Adolfo; Villaverde, Jose - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2004) 4, pp. 133-142
This paper analyses the determinants of internal migration in Spain from a regional standpoint. For this purpose, it develops both a nonparametric and semiparametric approach. The general conclusion that it is drawn from the study is that migratory movements are very persistent and mainly...
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The new map of the Internal Migrations in Spain: changes in the sixties pattern
Rodenas, Carmen Ródenas; Martí Sempere, Mónica - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2005) 6, pp. 21-40
This paper studies the spectacular increase of internal migration during the nineties in Spain, resulting in a summary of the main characteristics of migration flows and rates. Furthermore, it shows the differences between the current migration pattern and the trends established in the 60s....
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Migratory flows and human capital mobility
Cabrer, Bernardí; Serrano, Guadalupe; Simarro, Rocío - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 16, pp. 5-42
This paper focuses on estimating interregional human capital migration flows in Spain, based on the assumption of key hypothesis on data and temporal characteristics of educated population migration flows. The results point to the increasing intensity of medium and high educated gross migration...
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