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neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …
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This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
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This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …
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This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain …
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; migration ; brain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197
behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education …
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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...
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances …
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This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent...
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