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Evolution of individual preferences and persistence of family rules
Cigno, Alessandro; Gioffré, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - In: Review of Economics of the Household 19 (2021) 4, pp. 935-958
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Identifying non-cooperative behavior among spouses: Child outcomes in migrant-sending households
Chen, Joyce J. - In: Journal of Development Economics 100 (2013) 1, pp. 1-18
household labor for both children and mothers and, if migration occurs in response to a negative shock, we should observe an … by an increase in mothers' bargaining power, as children's human capital is not affected by migration, controlling for …
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Non-residential Fatherhood and Child Involvement:Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study
Kiernan, Kathleen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
Fifteen per cent of British babies are now born to parents who are neithercohabiting nor married. Little is known about non-residential fatherhood thatcommences with the birth of a child. Here, we use the Millennium Cohort Studyto examine a number of aspects of this form of fatherhood. Firstly,...
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Informal and Formal Sector Participation and Earnings in a LDC: The Importance of Time and Migration
Karpestam, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011
Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of social networks in the formal and informal sector. The paper touches upon this topic and investigates the conjecture that employment chances and expected earnings depend differently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799778
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Education, Migration and Source Community Incomes in Rural China
Karpestam, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011
that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if … migration is only temporary. Altogether, this signals positive payoffs of educational expenses to rural households but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799781
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Gender and Remittances: Evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - In: Feminist Economics 18 (2012) 2, pp. 201-229
This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender roles and naturalization to be crucial in the immigrant's decision to remit. For the empirical investigation, the authors use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)...
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The moldable young: How institutions impact social trust
Bergh, Andreas; Öhrvall, Richard - 2016
Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...
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Education, Migration and Source Community Incomes in Rural China
Karpestam, Peter - 2011
that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if … migration is only temporary. Altogether, this signals positive payoffs of educational expenses to rural households but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208564
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Informal and Formal Sector Participation and Earnings in a LDC: The Importance of Time and Migration
Karpestam, Peter - 2011
Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of social networks in the formal and informal sector. The paper touches upon this topic and investigates the conjecture that employment chances and expected earnings depend differently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208565
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Assessing the Impact of Massive Out-Migration on Agriculture
McCarthy, Nancy; Carletto, Gero; Davis, Benjamin; … - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006
agricultural sectors combined with profound demographic changes, primarily due to massive out-migration towards urban areas and … abroad. Despite the potential relevance of migration – and the resulting remittances – in fostering, or hindering … understanding of the role migration has played in the re-allocation of resources in agriculture among migrant families in Albania, a …
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