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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Does development aid increase military expenditure?

Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental...

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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy

Bahar, Dany - 2020

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …

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Internal migration, remittances and economic development

Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023

households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within …

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On remittances, foreign currency exposure and credit constraints : evidence from Nepal

Maskay, Nephil Matangi; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2014

countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …

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Foreign aid and domestic absorption

Temple, Jonathan; Van de Sijpe, Nicolas - 2014

We introduce a new "supply-push" instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption, investment,...

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Remittances in Latin America : trends and persistence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2024

This paper analyses remittances in fifteeen Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia … remittances are transitory only in Guatemala and Honduras. This might reflect the rather stable employment and wages of migrant … of remittances to these two countries. …

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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018

This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...

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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

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Effects of emigration on gender norms in countries of origin

Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021

the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …

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