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The economics of circular migration
Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor flows. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of circular movements for all parties. It studies the characteristics of circular movers worldwide and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290002
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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114016
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025424
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Selection policy and immigrants' remittance behaviour
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275837
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Selection policy and immigrants' remittance behaviour
Mahuteau, Stephane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277846
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282554
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017
those in the first cohort, though the policy change has no discernible effect on the level of remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114931
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Will skill-based immigration policies lead to lower remittances? : an analysis of the relations between education, sponsorship, and remittances
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018
their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798154
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The economics of circular migration
Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
; international migration ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631443