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We study the relationship between migration and childrenś education in Tajikistan - one of the poorest and most … effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance …
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: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …
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In this paper, we analyse the possible channels through which informality, remittances and migration could interact and … regarding the effects of the informal sector on economic growth. Moreover, thanks to globalization, migration and remittances …, while the possibility of migration in the informal sector drains the aggregate labor force. However, the magnitude of …
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We estimate a remittance model in which we address endogeneity and reverse causality relationships between immigrants' remittances, pre-transfer income and consumption. In order to take into account the fact that a large share of individuals do not remit, instrumental variable variants of the...
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This paper intends to contribute to the literature on the effects of domestic and international remittances on schooling and child labour. Using the information gathered in the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS), we examine separately the school attendance rates and the...
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This paper is the first systematic attempt to investigate the factors affecting time persistence in remittance behaviour at the individual level. We argue that the time profile of remittance ows from individual migrants is of considerable theoretical relevance and also has very important policy...
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The rapid growth of international migration and remittances has led to a wealth of research examining these trends. One … of these lines of research attempts to determine the relationship between migration, remittances and the adoption of … “Green Revolution” high yield variety (HYV) seeds. This literature proposes that migration and remittances may increase HYV …
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This paper investigates how sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries could harness remittances through formal channels for development using annual data for 35 countries from 1980 to 2008.We control for country heterogeneity, endogeneity and cross-sectional dependence of the error term using the...
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …
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, migrants’ earnings, gender and the duration of migration. This paper tries to fill the gap in the literature, especially for …
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