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The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts UISA in Chile in October 2002 brought in more comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper...
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This paper analyses the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country’s labour market in a … paid to medium-skilled migration which enables us to augment the literature by replicating important stylized facts … calibrated using German data. The key findings are: (i) a perfectly balanced migration has a neutral impact on the receiving …
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Migration in a globalising world is on the increase, especially migration of the highly skilled. It is quite natural … impact of migration negative for the country of origin and therefore "brain drain" turned into "brain gain" when it was seen …. The road in the middle is called "brain strain" emphasising that out migration can be either positive or negative for the …
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, investment and savings, net foreign debt, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate …
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then aggregated together as an index. Well-being is also broken down by age group and migration status of the household … (current migrant, return migrant and no migration experience). Migration in and of itself does not seem to have a negative … results suggest that migration does not play a significant role in shaping elderly well-being outcomes, contrary to popular …
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The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … of countries with per capita income below $1200 (2000). We estimate regressions for dynamic equations of migration … economy aspects aid, trade, capital movements and migration. The linear-quadratic impact of the income difference between rich …
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We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of GDP, for about 30 years in two samples of countries with per capita income above and below $1200 using dynamic panel data methods. Remittances increase the savings ratio in...
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, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate dynamic equations of all these variables …
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and implement diaspora engagement policies and also in the composition of migrant communities. While Indian migration has … long history of migration and one of the largest migrant communities in the world. The paper argues that government …
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. Well-being outcomes are then compared by age group, primary caregiver, migration status of the household (current migrant …, return migrant, or no migration experience), and by who has migrated within the household. It was found that migration in and … living standards experienced by the household are much stronger predictors of well-being than household migration status in a …
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