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. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358645
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317978
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
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; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … send remittances; but that involvement in trade and foreign direct investment is a rare occurrence. There is considerable … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing …
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selectivity of immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time …
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the same number of migrants, but those migrants are randomly selected from their country of origin. We find that the skill …
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immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
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