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The brain drain from developing countries : the brain drain produces many more losers than winners in developing countries

Docquier, Frédéric - 2014

structure of the labor force, cause labor shortages, and affect fiscal policy, but it can also generate remittances and other …

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Chapter 17 The Economics of Migrants' Remittances

Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006

This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …

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Migrant remittances and information flows : evidence from a field experiment

Batista, Catia; Narciso, Gaia - 2013

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration

McKenzie, David J.; Yang, Dean - 2014

remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development : a critical review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …

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Return international migration and geographical inequality : the case of Egypt

McCormick, Barry; Wahba, Jackline - 2004

This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...

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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …

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On asymmetric migration patterns from developing countries

Acharyya, Rajat; Kar, Saibal - 2017

This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local wages seems to be crucial in driving such results. The...

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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 effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...

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Diaspora externalities

Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...

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