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will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …
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the former Soviet Union, the disadvantage in education reverses and differences in criminal sentences disappear once we …
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education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … at earlier ages and their migration reasons change. Revealing the empowering role of education, women become more likely …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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According to the 2001 UK Census ethnic minority groups account for 4.6 million or 7.9 percent of the total UK population. The 2001 British Labour Force Survey indicates that the descendants of Britain's ethnic minority immigrants form an important part of the British population (2.8 percent) and...
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gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation by men domestically; increased female education, especially at the university and vocational level, increases female …
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Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many dimensions. Education and skill acquisition play an important role … educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those who migrate or their …
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Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …
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We develop a theoretical model regarding the migration of dual-earner couples and test it in the context of international migration. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases with the income of the primary earner, whereas the income of the secondary earner may...
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This paper examines the effect of education on intermarriage and specifically, whether the mechanisms through which … education affects intermarriage differ by immigrant generation and race. We consider three main paths through which education … similarities in education as well as ethnicity, then they may be willing to substitute similarities in education for ethnicity when …
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