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Remittances and child labor in Pakistan : a tale of complementarities

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023

We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...

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The economic and social impact of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) on migrant remittances : an overview of Tunisia and Morocco

Habib, Hajer - 2020

The spread of the novel coronavirus and 'stay at home' measures in response to this global health crisis is profoundly changing societies and economies around the world. The objective of this work is to analyze the economic impact of Covid-19 by focusing on their implications on migrant...

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Re-thinking immigrant investment funds

Gamlen, Alan John; Kutarna, Chris; Monk, Ashby H. B. - 2017

success of an IIP depends upon the coming-together of expertise from two domains - migration policy and investment management … Investment Funds (IIFs). We also indicate how such vehicles might help address urgent issues around migration and refugees, for …

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …, including jobs for asylees. Dual citizenships and circular migration contracts are possible instruments. Migration policy can be …

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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...

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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2021

This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy change implemented in the 1990s, which tightened the entry requirements for a subgroup of applicants. We use a mix of a conditional difference-in-differences and OLS estimator...

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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

fading in 1920 in connection with the Great Migration. OLS estimates are complemented with a matching estimator and a fuzzy … of its influence through migration and intermarriage, and black incarceration emerges as a powerful mediator. By matching …

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It's the way people move! : labour migration as an adjustment device in Russia

Pastore, Francesco; Semerikova, Elena - 2020

This paper aims to assess the role of migration as an adjustment mechanism device to favor convergence across states … net migration rate and apply spatial econometric methodology in order to distinguish the effect from the neighbouring … regions. We provide descriptive statistical evidence showing that Russia has more/less/the same intense migration flows than …

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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

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