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aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … households above the vulnerability threshold. Gini coefficients show a tendency to increase due to migration. Determinants of … different outcomes of migration are explored in a logit regression on migration success. Household and income structure as well …
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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 foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...
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Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub …
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in the Pacific island countries in maximizing the benefits of migration and remittances on their economic development. We … use a newly collected household survey about temporary migration in the region and implement a data audit on remittance … remittances by switching to the lowest-cost providers. We also find that exposure to new information thanks to migration …
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survey from Nepal combined with 35 years of rainfall and temperature data, we model migration and agricultural production … variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as …
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Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold …
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Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the … high poverty rate in the country. -- Haiti ; education ; remittances ; migration …
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the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …. -- migration ; remittances ; gender ; Sri Lanka …
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A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
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the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085941