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This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...
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There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased … enormously over the last decade, academic and policy-oriented research has not come to a consensus over whether remittances …
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intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
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intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726722
There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants’ remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased … enormously over the last decade, academic and policy-oriented research has not come to a consensus over whether remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762131
This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822164
We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420717
Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further variations in co-residence choices. We rely on a large Mexican panel survey to provide novel...
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, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …
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While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the old Europe of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to...
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