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proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …
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Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. 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 …
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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/10009369415
114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively … remittances are particularly beneficial for evaluative well-being in less developed and more unequal contexts; in richer countries …, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no …
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This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …
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proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation – using dollars to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999162
migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants’ education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
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After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …
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This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of …
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