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Migration and the demographic shift
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …
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Chapter 3. Migration and the Demographic Shift
Zaiceva, A.; Zimmermann, K.F. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 119-177). 2016
well as for health and public budgets, including in the context of political economy. Although immigration is sometimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023473
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Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration
Clemens, Michael A. - 2007
raise sending-country and global welfare. This study uses a new database of health worker emigration from Africa to test … whether exogenous decreases in emigration raise the number of domestic health professionals, increase the mass availability of … basic primary care, or improve a range of public health outcomes. It identifies the effect through two separate natural …
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A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa
Clemens, Michael A.; Pettersson Gelander, Gunilla - 2013
The migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to rich countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the issue has been hampered by lack of data. How many doctors and nurses have left Africa? Which countries did they leave? Where have they settled? To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014056418
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Patterns of Time Use Among Older People
Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Zucker, Leo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
status, health status, and educational attainment. We summarize related economic literature and crystallize a framework for …
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Strategic Remittances of International Migrants
Zhu, Heng - 2021
Motives for remittance transfers and recipient’s subsequent use of remittance income is a widely researched topic in the economics of migration literature. However, choices over the format in which migrants send remittance is ill understood. Decisions over remittance transfers involve more...
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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe
Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...
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Do natural hazards cause international migration?
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2016
The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...
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International migration : driver of political and social change?
Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline; Hamdouch, Bachir - 2016
This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, it explores whether households with return and current migrants bear different political preferences and behaviours than non-migrant families....
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A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations
Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2014
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...
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