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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for … sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …
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remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration …It has been argued that the adverse impact of skilled versus unskilled labor migration can be mitigated or even offset …
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of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants …
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The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a …
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their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While … less likely to sponsor relatives, presumably because of relatively higher opportunity cost of migration of their relatives …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in …
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their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While … less likely to sponsor relatives, presumably because of relatively higher opportunity cost of migration of their relatives …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798154
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … emigration ; Remittances ; Fertility ; Human capital …
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of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276107
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272622
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...
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