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Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …
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-to-time. Consequently, Black Americans might benefit greatly from the development of a long-term strategic plan that would help prevent such …
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The emigration of highly skilled workers can in theory lower social welfare in the migrant-sending country. If such … - the loss can be greater, and welfare can even decline globally. Policies to impede emigration thus have the potential to … raise sending-country and global welfare. This study uses a new database of health worker emigration from Africa to test …
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The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To...
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’s development policy. Without appropriate policy responses, BC fade the developing country growth prospects away. In order to …
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conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in these areas, have similar effects on crop yields but...
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This study shows how soil aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African countries, we find that infants born in arid areas are...
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attaining a higher living standard and expected low job search costs abroad are strong forces that drive emigration intentions …
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Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321035