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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
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Arbeitsmigranten in Deutschland. Es werden hierbei beide Seiten der Migration ins Auge gefasst, also sowohl die Migranten selbst als … Migrationsmotive und geben Einblick in die soziökonomische Situation der Migranten. Wir gehen dabei auch auf die Dauer der Migration … to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 …
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in the Pacific island countries in maximizing the benefits of migration and remittances on their economic development. We … remittances by switching to the lowest-cost providers. We also find that exposure to new information thanks to migration … use a newly collected household survey about temporary migration in the region and implement a data audit on remittance …
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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 …
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The main goal of our paper was to apply our research methodology on the specific case of the Ukrainian migration and … remittances in the Czech Republic. In contrast to previous studies, we provide a more detailed insight into the specifications of … having skilled position. Our results demonstrate that reverse economic effects of remittances on the source country might be …
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Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …
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country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034625
the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398473