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Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers. This paper investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital investments through relaxing resource constraints and facilitate households in consumption...
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Island of Sulawesi and find technology adoption to play a crucial role. We show that geography-induced migration together …
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Thinking about ethics of development and human development must both treat development in a global perspective and yet reflect on the content of human. This paper explores some faces of globalization by using a gender perspective, in order to consider reproduction (psychological and emotional as...
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, intergenerational transmission of skills from parents to their children, and migration of the children. I find evidence of regression to … transmission but from rural to urban labor markets through migration. …
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international migration, but there are potentially significant gains to migration between developing countries as well. …
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this mobility. While most migration studies have focused on economic motivations, a small literature addresses the impact … of human development and, indirectly, capability deprivation. This case study of southern Honduras examines migration …. Econometric treatment of village-level net migration rates before Hurricane Mitch is undertaken. Improved living standards reduced …
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This article examines the nature of migrant remittances and the amount by which income poverty and inequality will be reduced given migrants' remittances. We used the living standard survey (NLSS) data set produced by the government of Nigeria to help track poverty reduction progress. The unit...
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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...
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developing country, which is able to estimate the causal effect of migration. We utilize a recent survey of urban-rural migrants …-level propensity to migrate, calculated from the Indonesian intercensal survey, as an instrument. We find that childhood migration to … the probability to be obese. Therefore, our results suggest a permanent, positive, and large effect of childhood migration …
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the differential effects of external shocks across the regions. The model demonstrates how the internal migration regime … regional behavior until the shocks are large enough to overcome the isolation of local markets. The results show that migration …
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