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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less!
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice - 2010
unresolved issue, namely whether remittances increase or decrease with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … in the few existing studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216734
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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice - 2021
migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325300
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Effect of Income Inequality on Aggregate Saving : A Panel Analysis
Deniz, Pinar - 2019
Savings problem has become a crucial issue since it is one of the reasons of today's frequently-observed-financial crisis. There are several theories explaining this problem in the framework of consumption theory. Inequality in income distribution affects saving behavior. In this sense, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896923
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Religious affiliation and economic performance of Romanian emigrants : an empirical approach
Roman, Monica; Goschin, Zizi - 2011
Although migration and religion studies have traditionally developed as separate research topics, in the current context of globalization and transnationalism attention begins to focus on the way they may interconnect. Consequently, recent studies of migration raise the importance and role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542562
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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/10009519903
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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/10009349530
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Diaspora externalities
Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26
This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064002
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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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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518
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Remittances, financial development and economic growth in the economic community of West African states
Titoe, Michael D. <Jr.> - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 19 (2019) 2, pp. 71-83
There are varied findings on how the remittances, financial development and economic growth relationship works. Some … results show that remittances positively impact economic growth while financial development is found to have no significant … impact on economic growth. The interaction between the remittances and financial development variables is, however, found to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348448