services by migrants in Qatar. The hypothesis is that there are important synergies between telecommunications and remittances …. Migrants with greater telecom access may have higher demand for remittances, because more frequent communication with relatives … remittances.  …

Summary The relationship between migration and development processes in migrants’ countries of origin has been subject … to extensive scrutiny in the last decade by researchers and policy-makers. Migrants’ remittances have been fore … the fact that migration and remitting are often entangled in processes of violent conflict and political upheaval is often …

Summary This article poses three questions about the recent resurgence of academic and policy interest in migration …, development and diasporas. First, over many years the connection between migration and development has been of marginal interest … for many of those involved in the field of development studies; in many cases, where it has been considered, migration has …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of international remittances on different household … members. It examines how international remittances are spent for production and consumption by receiving households. Design …/methodology/approach – This paper uses fixed‐effect regressions to estimate the impact of international remittances on household spending in …

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between migration, remittances and agricultural … productivity by applying the new economics of labor migration model in the context of north‐west China. The specific objectives are … to examine the impacts of rural out‐migration on agricultural productivity in various farming systems, and whether …

were detected between the groups with regard to sport and holiday consumption patterns and sport expenditures. However …

Zusammenfassung Die Analyse von Paneldaten für Deutschland und Portugal und die Schätzung von Matching- Funktionen für … Berufsgruppen zeigt in Deutschland eine fallende und in Portugal eine steigende Effizienz des Matching-Prozesses. Löhne in … Matching-Prozesses um ca. 40 % geführt hätte. Ferner stellt sich heraus, daß eine Beschleunigung der beruflichen Mobilität vom …

, wird mit Hilfe eines nicht-parametrischen Matching-Verfahrens aus der Gesamtheit nicht-geförderter Unternehmen eine … employment growth of assisted firms. To estimate causal effects a nonparametric matching procedure is used to draw an adequate …

Vergleich der Beschäftigungswachstumsraten zwischen der Untersuchungs- und Kontrollgruppe nach dem Matching zeigt, dass eine … statistical matching procedure an adequate control group for comparison with the group of venture-backed firms is drawn. Matching …