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Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa

Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …

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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal

Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

A heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants and their impact on a variety of economic indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances primarily enhance consumption, they may have no...

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The effects of migration on poverty and inequality in rural Kosovo

Möllers, Judith; Meyer, Wiebke - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-18

aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … households above the vulnerability threshold. Gini coefficients show a tendency to increase due to migration. Determinants of … different outcomes of migration are explored in a logit regression on migration success. Household and income structure as well …

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Determinants of workers’ remittances: evidence from the European Neighbouring Region

Schiopu, Ioana; Siegfried, Nikolaus - 2006

Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus investment motives using a new panel data set of bilateral...

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Impact of remittances on fertility

Naufal, George - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a prime target for policymakers. Because remittance flows go directly to households in emigrants’ home countries, one has to wonder about their effects on household...

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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Estimating the net effects of migration and remittances on poverty and inequality: Comparison of Fiji and Tonga

Brown, Richard P. C.; Jimenez, Eliana - 2007

We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on … income distribution and measures of poverty, after controlling for selectivity in migration and endogeneity in the … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and …

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Job dissatisfaction and migration: Evidence from Tajikistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 21, pp. 1-27

left behind. Migrants' relatives build their expectations on earnings from migration through received information on the … expected earnings from migration greatly exceed their current wages in the source country, migrant relatives become more … migrants' relatives on their job dissatisfaction. A larger gap between what an individual could earn in the migration …

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Long-term benefits from temporary migration: Does the gender of the migrant matter?

DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2013

the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …

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Post electoral crisis and international remittances: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Konan, Yao Silvère - 2017

This paper analyzes the determinants of international remittances received during the post electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, using data collected 5 months after the end of the conflict. The author finds that the crisis has been a means of mobilizing social capital and demonstrating altruistic...

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