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This paper is the first systematic attempt to investigate the factors affecting time persistence in remittance behaviour at the individual level. We argue that the time profile of remittance ows from individual migrants is of considerable theoretical relevance and also has very important policy...
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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of … decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference …
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Over the last several decades global migration ows have increased rapidly, resulting in corresponding increases in the …
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I study the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on political outcomes in immigrant receiving countries, focusing on the case of election outcomes and immigration in Danish municipalities 1981-2001. A rich set of control variables isolates ethnic diversity effects from that of other...
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of migration, both before the occurrence of the economic crisis in Romania and afterwards is the motivation of the study … in this paper. The research conducted is subject to the analysis of labor migration in Romania, as well as determinants … analysis of labor migration in Romania and in the second part are used regression econometric models to analyze the impact of …
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Migration from one’s parents’ home and sexual debut are common features of the transition to adulthood. Although many … studies have described both of these features independently, few have examined the relationship between migration and sexual … of internal migration, rapid modernization, a moderate HIV epidemic, and a declining average age of sexual debut …
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the importance of migration and urbanization within countries’ demographic transitions, relatively little is known … regarding the impact of migration on migrants’ reproductive health outcomes in general and abortion in particular. In this … article, we use detailed pregnancy and migration histories collected as part of the Household and Welfare Study of Accra (HAWS …
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Social polarization refers to the measurement of the distance between different social groups, defined on the basis of variables such as race, religion, or ethnicity. We propose two approaches to measuring social polarization in the case where the distance between groups is based on an ordinal...
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effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of ex ante public-private agreement to link skill formation and … skilled migration for the mutual benefit of origin countries, destination countries, and migrants: ‘Global Skill Partnerships …
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The determinants and consequences of the naturalization of immigrants is a hot topic in the political debate in Europe. This article compares the effect of naturalization on the income attainment of immigrants in two Scandinavian countries, Denmark and Sweden, using longitudinal register data...
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