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Legal identity and access to the state in South Africa

Nsabimana, Aimable; Pleace, Michelle; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2024

Legal identity is an important aspect of securing access to public services, such as education, healthcare, and social protection services, including child support grants. In the South African context, in the post-apartheid period, many poor South Africans benefited from wellorganized civil...

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Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980-2015

Stempel, Carl; Alemi, Qais - 2018

physical and mental disability resulting from pre-migration and migration traumas, and inability to develop occupational niches …

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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration : national and subnational influences

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019

Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlásny, Vladimír; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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Ethnic diversity and financial inclusion in post-apartheid South Africa

Koomson, Isaac; Danquah, Michael; Martey, Edward - 2023

The ethnic diversity-financial inclusion nexus remains one of the least explored topics in the literature despite global attempts to promote cultural mixing due to its socioeconomic benefits. We contribute to the literature by examining the link between ethnic diversity and financial inclusion...

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Ethnic diversity and informal work in Ghana

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Danquah, Michael - 2020

We present the first study that examines the effects of ethnic diversity on informal work. Using two waves of data from the Ghana Socioeconomic Panel Survey, we find that ethnic diversity is associated with a higher probability of engaging in informal work. Specifically, our instrumental...

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The international circulation of elites : knowledge, entrepreneurial and political

Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010

International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites … affect international development. -- International migration ; entrepreneurial ; political migrants ; talent mobility …

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Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks : evidence from the Panic of 1907

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Lopez-Alonso, Moramay - 2019

Using height as a proxy for physical productivity of labour, this paper estimates the selection of Mexican migration to … impact of random shocks on short-run shifts in selection into migration. The results suggest that the first Mexican migrants … of migration. …

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The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks : a gender perspective

Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2017

This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...

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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …

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