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Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a … discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents and characterizes the Romanian migration through the different phases … Romanian migration addressing the remitting behavior and its development over the past years. The issue of return migration is …
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, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent Romania's accession to the EU in 2007 has added new features to the … Romanian migration phenomenon. Therefore, the paper describes characteristics of Romanian labor migration and its labor market … disequilibria on the labor market, generating a crisis that remains ongoing. From this perspective, migration was and still is the …
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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...
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well as transfer new norms and practices across borders, this finding supports the hypothesis that migration contributes to …
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. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries …
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To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
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This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
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This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration …. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration since the industrial revolution. We focus … principally on long-distance migration to rich destination countries, the settler economies in the nineteenth century and later …
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. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 … siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find important …
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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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