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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
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Enhancing the Development Impact of Migration
Barbone, Luca - 2012
Migration is a phenomenon that reflects economic, social and demographic imbalances across countries and requires a multi-disciplinary approach to understand and manage. This paper offers some observations on the complex issue of the development impact of migration. It will do so by commenting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096157
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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114016
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The Impact of Migration on Children Left Behind in Developing Countries : Outcomes Analysis and Data Requirements
Rossi, Andrea - 2014
parent migrating, and the impact of migration and remittances on the children left behind is still notably absent in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142626
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Feminization of migration and trends in remittances : independent female migrants may be a reliable source of remittances despite the difficulties they encounter in labor markets
Le Goff, Maëlan - 2016
Migrants' remittances to developing countries have increased in recent decades, partly due to reduced transactions … explanation. Despite the difficulties female migrants encounter in the labor market, their total remittances may be higher and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434036
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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165988
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The interactive effects of remittances on economic growth and inequality in Western Balkan countries
Bajra, Ujkan Q. - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 3, pp. 757-775
Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances … labor market and encouraging uncontrolled individual relocation. This paper also reveals that although remittances have …
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Sending money home : transaction cost and remittances to developing countries
Ahmed, Junaid; Mughal, Mazhar; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2020
Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …
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Return international migration and geographical inequality : the case of Egypt
McCormick, Barry; Wahba, Jackline - 2004
This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514468
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On asymmetric migration patterns from developing countries
Acharyya, Rajat; Kar, Saibal - 2017
This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local wages seems to be crucial in driving such results. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098854