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Education and migration: empirical evidence from Ecuador
Falco, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2015
the urban areas. Considering both country-specific characteristics and gender differentials, our results do not indicate a …
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Women on the Move: The Neglected Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain
martin, john paul; Spielvogel, Gilles; Dumont, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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Migration and gender differences in the home labour market: Evidence from Albania
Mendola, Mariapia; Carletto, Calogero - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 870-880
This paper examines the role of migration in affecting the labour market opportunities of male and female household members left behind. We address this question by analyzing the impact of international migration flows from Albania, where migration is a massive and male-dominated phenomenon. We...
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The effects of development on migration: Theoretical issues and new empirical evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 3, pp. 485-508
Empirical research on the determinants of emigration from the LDCs has so far given little emphasis to the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been put forth which hint at the possibility that in the early stages of...
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique.
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C.; Calder, Tara McIndoe- - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of the impact of return migration on...
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Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....
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The European Crisis and Migration to Germany: Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...
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A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations
Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106176