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While the level of international migration and remittances continues to grow, data on international migration remains unreliable. At the international level, there is no consistent set of statistics on the number or skill characteristics of international migrants. At the national level, most...
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. The data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's skilled migration and to analyze its causes and … consequences for developing countries. The .findings show that women represent an increasing share of the OECD immigration stock … with the gender gap in educational attainment at origin. Equating women's and men's access to education would probably …
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drain indicators. Building on newly collated data, the paper uses a novel estimation procedure based on a pseudo …
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Until recently, there has been no systematic empirical assessment of the economic impact of the brain drain. Despite many case studies and anecdotal evidence, the main reason for this seems to be the lack of harmonized international data on migration by country of origin and education level. An...
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Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found to be highly correlated with financial flows from the migrant's host country to her home...
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, in the access of women to migration opportunities and decision making. The context of the analysis is Albania, a natural … laboratory for studying migration developments given that out-migration was practically eliminated from the end of World War II …
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The authors study the effects of trade barriers and the persistence of past linkages on trade flows in the former Soviet Union. Estimating a gravity equation on trade among and between nine Russian regions and 14 former Soviet republics, they find that Russian regions traded 60 percent more with...
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Modern fruit sector development in Chile led to agricultural employment for women, though usually only as temporary … workers and often at a piece rate. Nonetheless, fruit sector employment offered women access to income and personal … and changing gender relations. Using a unique longitudinal data set, they examine women's decisions regarding labor force …
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by women. Girls have a lower economic value where female labor opportunities are fewer. Consistently, higher relative …
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on household income of a rural program in China that focuses on increasing women's economic and social participation in … the local community. They find that the program substantially increases women's participation and household income, and …
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