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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020797
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …
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Migration, congestion and growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2017
growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659511
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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013
This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at … destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738164
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Children in left-behind migrant households : education and gender equality
Saleemi, Sundus - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind" by the migrants. Left-behind households' expenditure on children's education and the gendered distribution of these expenditures are two outcomes of main interest. First, it is...
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Impact of remittances on fertility : remittances are closely linked to household fertility choices with consequences at the community and country level
Naufal, George - 2015
inflows and fertility rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433778
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What drives youth's intention to migrate abroad? : evidence from international survey data
Milasi, Santo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/12, pp. 1-30
Despite the bulk of international migrants being youth, little is known about the factors driving young people's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over the period 2010-2016, this study contributes to the...
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The International Migration Flow of Labor During the Process of Integration of the Republic of Moldova with the European Union
Birca, Alic - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 4, pp. 813-823
In this article the author debates the international migration flow of labor during the process of Republic of Moldova’s integration with the European Union. Therefore, the author presents the economic causes and effects of the international migration of workforce. Both emigration and...
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