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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol Lee - 2018
, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873441
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Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria
Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing literature, our methodology of instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) explicitly demonstrates the differential marginal impact of remittances for households at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873442
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433778
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Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Martinez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581651
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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal
Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333999
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466538
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Hollowing out the middle? : remittances and income inequality in Nigeria
Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing literature, our methodology of instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) explicitly demonstrates the differential marginal impact of remittances for households at different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821199
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A socio-economic picture of Kosovar migrants and their origin farm households
Möllers, Judith; Meyer, Wiebke; Xhema, Sherif; … - 2013
Arbeitsmigranten in Deutschland. Es werden hierbei beide Seiten der Migration ins Auge gefasst, also sowohl die Migranten selbst als … Migrationsmotive und geben Einblick in die soziökonomische Situation der Migranten. Wir gehen dabei auch auf die Dauer der Migration … with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777297
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736719