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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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of migrants from a specific source country may be included as an additional explanatory variable. Our study provides a … concise review of the relationship between migrants and their international economic linkages. It then focuses on Foreign … both directions (inward and outward), and that these impacts are higher when migrants are highly-educated and skilled …
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, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …
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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 … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
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mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …
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This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...
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households with return migrants, households with current migrants, and equivalent nonmigrant households in terms of a variety of … economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …
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Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
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A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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