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Migration, remittances and household welfare in Ethiopia
Andersson L. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856390
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South-South Migration and Human Development: Reflections on African Experiences
Bakewell, Oliver - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries – or countries of the global ‘South’ – and processes of human development. The paper offers a critical analysis of the concept of South-South migration and draws attention to four fundamental problems....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506991
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Migration and Educational Outcomes of Children
Schapiro, Kristina A. - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
This paper examines the impact of migration on educational outcomes of children. It looks at the outcomes of internationally as well as internally migrating children and identifies the specific barriers they face in access to quality schooling. It discusses the various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507025
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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe
Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.
neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335181
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To return permanently or to return temporarily?: Explaining migrants' intentions
Bilgili Ö.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper studies migrants intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants in the Netherlands, we explore how migrants experiences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856367
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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516186
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The effects of migration on poverty and inequality in rural Kosovo
Möllers, Judith; Meyer, Wiebke - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-18
The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466538
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Chapter 26. African Migration
Lucas, Robert E.B. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1445-1596). 2015
Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses of these issues are critically reviewed,...
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Impact of Migrant Remittances on the Human Development of Women: Econometric Evidence from Panel Data - L’impatto delle rimesse dei lavoratori stranieri sullo sviluppo umano delle...
Ibourk, Aomar; Amaghouss, Jabrane - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 67 (2014) 3, pp. 387-411
macroeconomic aggregate data to check the effect of remittances on human development of women at the international level. We have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991512
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Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …
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