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This study uses a unique natural experiment to test a simple model of international differences in workers’ wages and productivity. Large differences in wages across countries could arise from several sources. These include barriers to trade in outputs, differences in technology, differences...
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then aggregated together as an index. Well-being is also broken down by age group and migration status of the household … (current migrant, return migrant and no migration experience). Migration in and of itself does not seem to have a negative … results suggest that migration does not play a significant role in shaping elderly well-being outcomes, contrary to popular …
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. Well-being outcomes are then compared by age group, primary caregiver, migration status of the household (current migrant …, return migrant, or no migration experience), and by who has migrated within the household. It was found that migration in and … living standards experienced by the household are much stronger predictors of well-being than household migration status in a …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...
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Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less developed countries, but with very limited success. A large body of evidence indicates that the root of the economic development problem is cross-country differences in the...
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Using a simultaneous equation system between migration, remittances and two schooling variables, this papers analyses … the effect the migration experience have on school attendance and years of schooling of youngsters between 11 and 19 years … Oportunidades may have on schooling, and the results suggest migration exposure at the home and the community level have negative …
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely … the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that does take the change in household …
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inequality across provinces show that, if migration is taken into account, disparities are markedly less, and have tended to …
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In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that … migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is …
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-to-urban migration. This decade, 2001-2010, is the first ever in which the urban population grows faster than the rural population in the … countries, are largely attributable to LDC's in Asia, and in particular Bangladesh. The very large rural-urban migration in …
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