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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009

population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. …

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Migration and Urban Poverty in India Some Preliminary Observations

Mishra, Udaya S.; Joe, William; Samaiyar, Priyajit - eSocialSciences - 2009

Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale and attempts to understand gains accruing to … individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …

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Adaptation to climate change, Vulnerability and Micro- Insurance Business: A Study on Forest Dependent Communities in Drought prone areas of West Bengal, India

Basu, Jyotish Prakash - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2011

strategies like out-migration; formation of self-help group (SHGs), water harvesting, accessibility of non-timber forest products … vulnerability and migration. …

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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...

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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant …

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Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Kauppinen, Ilpo - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare state, and those who emigrate. We find a striking gender difference among Danish emigrants. Majority of men opposes increasing income redistribution, while majority of women...

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Extending the case for a beneficial brain drain

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

agents face heterogeneous migration costs. …

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Sale of Visas: A Smuggler’s Final Song?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

migration but uses the help of cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we study how legalisation and repression can be … combined to eliminate human smuggling while controlling migration flows. This policy mix also has the advantage that the funds …

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Does Immigration Stimulate Foreign Trade? Evidence from Sweden

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 376-402

country in which they were born. This study provides an empirical investigation of the link between migration and trade flows … for Sweden. Trade and migration data for Sweden and 180 partner countries between 2002 and 2007 are used to estimate an … augmented gravity model. The results show a statistically strong, positive and robust link between migration and increased trade …

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Migrant Networks and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from Displaced Workers

Colussi, Tommaso - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2013

This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of past co-workers of the same nationality. For this exercise I use matched employer-employee micro data on the universe of private-sector employees in Italy between 1975 and 2001....

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