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Remittances and Informal Work
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559624
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements
Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - 2014
, 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 … severe disequilibria on the labor market, generating a crisis that remains ongoing. From this perspective, migration was and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481592
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements
Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, 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 … severe disequilibria on the labor market, generating a crisis that remains ongoing. From this perspective, migration was and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105409
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International Migration, Return Migration, and their Effects: A Comprehensive Review on the Romanian Case
Anghel, Remus Gabriel; Botezat, Alina; Coșciug, Anatolie; … - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653173
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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277328
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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070431
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Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows
Naufal, George S.; Genc, Ismail H. - 2013
After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319552
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Motivations for remittances: Evidence from Moldova
Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011
This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrants abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274686
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333343
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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is … known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the … relationship between migration and support for EU accession in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005955