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emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with … migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive … education choices of rural individuals. Hence, migration policies can be used to stimulate educational attainment in rural …
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expenditure, however, has been on large capital-intensive projects rather than on education and other social spending. More … emphasis on education would help reduce the income gap, since human capital is a key determinant of income. Government policies … inequality across provinces show that, if migration is taken into account, disparities are markedly less, and have tended to …
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … be due to a higher value placed on Nepali education by internal migrants as compared to the education needed for foreign …
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analyses the impact of the EQF on education, skills, migration and the economic growth by performing a conceptual analysis and … European Commission. Whereas education is the main driver of the upward skill mobility, migration drives the spatial skill …
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different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269660
to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education …, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … composition of migration has a positive effect on the educational achievements in the home country. …
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532677
This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …
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