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Exploring the macroeconomic drivers of international bilateral remittance flows : a gravity-model approach

Fagiolo, Giorgio; Rughi, Tommaso - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 7, pp. 1-27

This paper investigates the macroeconomic determinants of global bilateral remittance flows. Unlike existing studies, which have been often hampered by the lack of comprehensive and large-enough datasets, we use data originally covering 214 countries over the 2010-2017 period. We employ a...

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Cultural gravity and redistribution of growth through migration : cohesion lessons from spatial econometrics and topological data analysis

Tubadji, Annie; Rudkin, Simon - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 104 (2025) 1, pp. 1-25

Cultural Gravity is defined as the power of the cultural milieu of a locality to attract immigrants. We test the impact of Cultural Gravity on the spatial clustering and productivity of culturally diverse migrants throughout the European Union. We add to the literature in two ways. First, we...

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The International Migration of Women

Morrison, Andrew R.; Schiff, Maurice W.; Sj??blom, Mirja - 2012

Women now account for nearly half of all international migration. Theoretical and empirical models that omit gendered … determinants and impacts of migration are missing key elements of the story. Women's roles in destination labor markets and in … remittances as well as on the patterns of labor market participation of women migrants. It also sketches a road map for future …

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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor contents in exports were generated from the...

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What drives youth's intention to migrate abroad? : evidence from international survey data

Milasi, Santo - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/12, pp. 1-30

's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over …

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Brain drain and economic growth : evidence of productivity growth from brain circulation

Yu, Woosik - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 10 (2021) 2, pp. 128-145

This paper analyzes the effect of the so-called 'brain drain' on economic growth through the channel of growth in total factor productivity. We analyze panel data that measure the severity of brain drain, which are from IMD and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our analysis shows that...

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International migratory agreements : the paradox of adverse interest

Alonso, José Antonio; Santos Arteaga, Francisco Javier - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/20, pp. 1-29

This article seeks to explain the contradiction between the promises of welfare gains derived from the economic models recommending the removal of immigration restrictions and the realities experienced by countries attempting to apply restrictions to immigration flows. A formal model is built in...

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International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain

??zden, ??a??lar; Schiff, Maurice - 2012

Knowledge of the economic effects of migration, especially its impact on economic development, is rather limited. In order to expand knowledge on migration, and identify policies and reforms that would lead to superior development outcomes, this volume presents the results of a first set of...

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Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain

de Melo, Jaime - 2007

International migration will be one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. Lower transaction and communication costs have already greatly eased the formation of migrant networks and reduced migration costs, for long a deterrent to migration from developing countries to developed...

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Measuring International Skilled Migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2007

Migration at University College London; his email address is hillel mail.biu.ac.il. This article is part of the World Bank ….permissions oxfordjournals.org 249 250 THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW source country, which should consider as skilled emigrants only people who …

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