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The main goal of our paper was to apply our research methodology on the specific case of the Ukrainian migration and … migration policy should not neglect microeconomic effects that have potential to solve aggregate level problems . …
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For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is … known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the … relationship between migration and support for EU accession in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …
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We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...
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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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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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Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...
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country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …
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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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This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the … migration not only on the formation of human capital, but also consider migration's impact on knowledge capital in the sending … countries. In line with previous studies we find that in the short- to medium-term high skill migration strictly reduces …
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-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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