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Much has been written on the relationship of China and Africa in the past decade. However, the subject of Chinese … migrant entrepreneurs in Africa and their articulation with African counterparts was little explored up to the early 2010s … entrepreneurs in Africa. This has been underlined unison in the four books under review. …
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raise sending-country and global welfare. This study uses a new database of health worker emigration from Africa to test … that Africa's generally low staffing levels and poor public health conditions are the result of factors entirely unrelated … greater production of health workers in Africa …
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"brain drain" from Africa even more, while millions of unskilled irregular migrants compete with the growing army of …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from …
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Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are...
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Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming an increasingly important destination for international migration. The region hosts … social security systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, host populations might fear increasing competition for resources and labor … immigrants, whose increasing presence in Africa is seen by many as the most important contemporary geopolitical shift involving …
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We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...
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Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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Census data from international sources covering 77 percent of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the United States, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants...
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