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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532676
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei; Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532736
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532860
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Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia; Flores, Fernanda Martínez; Otten, … - 2016
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532984
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration â …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129933
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895131
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358645
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Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research
Becker, Sascha O. - 2022
Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532857
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Assimilation through Marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532779
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Assimilation through Marriage
Epstein, Gil S.; Pomerantz, Renana Lindner - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895121