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with the reasons why people do remit, concluding that the world is more balanced than a clear-cut division between …
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We study a change in immigration policy whereby the UK unexpectedly annulled visa requirements for nationals of new member states of the EU. We find that the newly arrived migrants from these countries were likelier to be employed in lower-ranking occupations, but this greater propensity erodes...
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with the reasons why people do remit, concluding that the world is more balanced than a clear-cut division between …
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In this article have presented the kernel of the migration literature on remittances. It started from their three most debated features: stability, cyclicality and sustainability. Then moved to the motives driving remittances and, finally, their relationship with development. Both sustainability...
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Kinship, religious and other social networks play a key role in the decision to migrate, and in determining migration journeys and return. This includes the role of family members in host countries, who may encourage prospective migrants through remittances and information. Migrants proactively...
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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
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This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
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centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Oceania and from parts of Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) to other parts of Asia, Africa and the New World. World wars …, immigration restrictions and the Great Depression resulted in a period of low international migration (1913 to 1945). In the post-World …
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resolved by reference to the demographic divide between the less and more developed world. On the other hand, these facts hold …
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This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by intensified trade links bring about expansion of people's social space and...
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