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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? In order to examine this question, we designed a behavioral measure of the population’s desire for better governance. A postcard was distributed to households with the pledge...
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Do Training Funds Raise the Pace of Training? The Case of Mauritius
Kuku, Oluyemisi; Orazem, Peter; Rojid, Sawkut; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
Many developing countries have tried to increase firm provision of training by providing subsidies funded by taxes proportional to the firm’s wage bill.  These training funds, however, may backfire if the adverse effect of the tax on training incentives outweighs the positive effects of...
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Selection, Selection, Selection: the Impact of Return Migration
Wahba, Jackline - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2015
The evidence on the impact of return migration on the sending country is rather sparse, though growing. The contribution of this paper is in addressing various selectivity problems whilst quantifying the impact of return migration on wages of returnees using non-experimental data. Using Egyptian...
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La dimensión ingreso del desarrollo humano en Michoacán, 1990-2010: un estudio DEA en presencia de bad outputs
Giménez García, Victor Manuel; Ayvar Campos, … - In: Revista Nicolaita de Estudios Económicos IX (2014) 2, pp. 39-64
dimension of human development in the presence of bad outputs in the 113 municipalities of Michoacán during the period 1990 …-2010. Human development in Michoacán is characterized by low income performance dimension, i.e., the dynamics of the state and … increase the amount of income and combat poverty will allow the Michoacan society aspire to higher levels of human development …
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A better indicator of standards of living: The Gross National Disposable Income
Capelli, Clara; Vaggi, Gianni - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali, … - 2013
Measuring the standards of living is a fundamental concern in economics and particularly in the eld of development …
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The Economics of Temporary Migrations
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...
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Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?
Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R; Rajasekhar, D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance in the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as empirically the effect of incentive pay when agents have pro-social objectives, but also preferences over dealing with one social group relative to...
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The Influence of Vulnerability on Migration Intentions in Afghanistan
Loschman C.; Siegel M. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This study explores the influence of vulnerability on migration intentions within the context of Afghanistan. While it is commonplace to conceptualize migration as being driven by certain economic-related factors, it is reasonable to assume that in an insecure setting like Afghanistan the...
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Key Factors Determining the Rationale for Brain Drain: An Irony Never Recovered
Bashir, Malik Fahim; Xu, Changsheng; Zaman, Khalid; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Empirical … 2 (2014) 8, pp. 308-320
Higher education has become increasingly international in the past decade as more and more students choose to study abroad, enrolled in foreign educational programs and institutions in their home country, or simply use the internet to take courses at colleges or universities in other countries....
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Devaluation and Income Inequality Nexus: Evidence from Pakistan
Shahbaz, Muhammad; Islam, Faridul; Butt, Muhammad Sabihuddin - In: International Journal of Economics and Empirical … 1 (2013) 4, pp. 48-58
) for the short run dynamics. We also test the Kuznets inverted-U relation between income inequality and economic growth. We … find long run relationship among the series; and that nominal devaluation worsens income inequality. Though economic growth …. Inflation lowers income inequality but unemployment aggravates it in Pakistan. This paperopens up new insights for policy makers …
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