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Migration Patterns in Pakistan: Preliminary Results from the PLM Survey, 1979

Mohammad, Irfan; Demery, Lionel; Ghulam Mohammad, Arif; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983

This paper reports some preliminary results of the PLM survey, as they relate to migration flews in Pakistan. Section II reviews the implications of the data collection methodology, and is followed (in Section III) by an analysis of the major flows of internal migration. Section IV deals...

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …

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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …

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Migrant remittances and information flows : evidence from a field experiment

Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - 2013

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228776

Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration

McKenzie, David J.; Yang, Dean - 2014

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …

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To return permanently or to return temporarily?: Explaining migrants' intentions

Bilgili Ö.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper studies migrants intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants in the Netherlands, we explore how migrants experiences...

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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...

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Social remittances

Tuccio, Michele; Wahba, Jackline - 2020

This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …

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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...

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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - 2013

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329144