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Most studies on migration are limited to economic impact of migration. But this is only one side of the coin. In order to understand it better, international migration should be placed within the broader context of development. The first part of the article shows the channels through which...
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The objective of the paper is to analyze the respective impact of aid and remittances on human development as measured … health aid and remittances contribute to reduce child health disparities between countries, the paper addresses two other … impact of aid and remittances on intra-country child health disparities? Our results suggest that both remittances and health …
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send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and …
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intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
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We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …
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Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a comprehensive review of the existing literature that aims at providing a full picture of this dynamic migratory process and discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents...
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nonreceiving households, and households with migrant parents to single out the impact of migration and remittances. The results … other household members. Receiving remittances reduces the adverse impact of migration by only 1-3 percentage points. The …
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part of the labour force from the emigration countries led to a significant flow of remittances. Being viewed as the main … gain of the loss of labour force, remittances are important at macroeconomic level to the extent in which they bring in the … of a country according to the way in which remittances received are used by emigrants. This study analyses the impact …
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Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
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macroeconomic aggregate data to check the effect of remittances on human development of women at the international level. We have …
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