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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - 2019

For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is … known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the … relationship between migration and support for EU accession in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …

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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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Migration and remittances in Haiti: Their welfare impact on poor and non-poor households

Cardozo, Adriana R.; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; … - 2019

The purpose of this study is to identify a person's likelihood of emigrating to another country and to identify a household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of receiving remittances on household welfare, across...

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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 …

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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...

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Economic Resources, Financial Aid and Remittances

Boulanger Martel, Simon Pierre; Pelling, Lisa; … - 2018

According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total official aid to the same countries. The practice of...

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Remitters in Dubai

Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 769-780

This article provides a short description of remitters in Dubai. The data comes from a remittance survey on foreign workers in the Emirate conducted in 2008. Among other findings, our results suggest that there are key differences between those remitters who live in labour camps and those living...

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Motivations for remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrants abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...

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What determines the choice of transfer channel for migrant remittances? The case of Moldova

Siegel, Melissa; Lücke, Matthias - 2009

include socioeconomic characteristics of the migrant and other household members, the pattern of migration (destination … migrant’s irregular legal status in the host country, and short migration spells. …

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Motivations for remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrant family members abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277816