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Essays on gender, migration, and development
Santos Silva, Manuel Pedro Duarte - 2018
This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a consequence of economic development. The first three...
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The effects of migration and pollution externality on cognitive skills in Caribbean economies : a theoretical analysis
Cassin, Lesly - 2018
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Pacific small island developing states and climate change migration
Holliday, Devyn - 2020
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The Climate Diaspora : Indo-Pacific Emigration from Small Island Developing States
Litwin, Evan - 2011
regional vulnerability and instability. This is particularly pronounced in the Indo-Pacific region where many island nations …, or Small Island Developing States (SIDS), face rising seas and changing weather patterns that pose a severe threat to … vulnerabilities that low-lying island and atoll states have as well as a variety of scientific research indicating that sea level is …
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International migration and development : institutional consequences of global mobility for sending and receiving countries between 1970 and 2010
Bashko, Aliaksei - 2018
There is now a broad consensus of economists, political scientists, sociologists and scientists in other fields on a wide range of benefits that international migration brings to global development. Main aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of economic and developmental impacts of...
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How does migration affect child labor in sending countries? : emigration from developing countries can change local labor market conditions and children's work time
Mendola, Mariapia - 2016
International labor mobility has resulted in sweeping socio-economic changes in many developing countries. When a family member migrates for work and sends back remittances, household income may rise, and with it investment in children's schooling. Emigration flows may also alter local labor...
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More development, less emigration to OECD countries : identifying inconsistencies between cross-sectional and time-series estimates of the migration hump
Bencek, David; Schneiderheinze, Claas - 2019
Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the “migration hump” is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes...
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Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD : revisiting the migration hump with panel data
Bencek, David; Schneiderheinze, Claas - 2020
Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the "migration hump" is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes of...
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Impacts of temporary migration on development in origin countries
Bossavie, Laurent; Özden, Çağlar - In: The World Bank research observer : WBRO 38 (2023) 2, pp. 249-294
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International migration of educated manpower and social rates of return to education in LDCs
Blomqvist, Åke G. - 1986
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