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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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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox
Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020
How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267712
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018
their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926721
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Human capital flight and output growth nexus : evidence from Nigeria
Adeosun, Oluyemi Theophilus; Popogbe, Oluwaseyi Omowunmi - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 3, pp. 206-222
focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population growth and secondary school enrolment. This has not received adequate … attention in the literature, as many papers have primarily focused on the impact of remittances on economic growth. Design …/methodology/approach Leveraging on the macro-level approach to migration, remittances and the economy, this research considers the nexus among the …
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Will skill-based immigration policies lead to lower remittances? : an analysis of the relations between education, sponsorship, and remittances
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018
their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798154
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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less!
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice - 2010
unresolved issue, namely whether remittances increase or decrease with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … in the few existing studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216734
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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice - 2021
migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325300