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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282204
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Migration, remittances and competition in international labour market
Chowdhury, Mehdi M. - 2009
Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288483
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A global view of cross-border migration
Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … countries and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare …
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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human … ; environmental accounts and accounting ; environmental equity ; population growth ; international migration ; remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523002
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian - 2013
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090780
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Chapter 1. Migration Theory
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 3-51). 2015
This chapter provides a comprehensive expository survey and synthesis of the theoretical determinants of migration. Early work beginning with Adam Smith, running through the pioneering research of Larry Sjaastad in the 1960s, and continuing through the end of the twentieth century established...
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Labor market transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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Migration, remittances and competition in international labour market
Chowdhury, Mehdi M. (contributor) - 2009
Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase … country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867815
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 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/10013118275
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The Role of Altruism in Sending and Spending Remittances
Shimada, Akira - 2013
invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he … that other household members in the home country likely consume rather than invest remittances if they are highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076901