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selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …
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Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Sozialordnung sind die Auswirkungen der geplanten EU-Osterweiterung auf die Arbeitsmärkte und die öffentlichen Finanzen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Zur Abschätzung des Migrationspotentials nach der...
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estimate the migration potential after EU enlargement, econometric-based simulation models are used for the four most heavily …
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This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
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This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313
We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by the altruistic behaviour. This possibility is tested by means of cointegration analysis, which is applied to Turkish remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single...
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I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … migration to Germany and tested the model for the 1969-2004, using the cointegration technique. A single cointegrating vector is … found among the gross migration inflows and the following explanatory variables: the relative income ratio between Germany …
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In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in the 1997-2009 period for a large sample of migrants from 84 countries in order to develop an empirical model for the propensity by migrants to remit. Our model takes into full account the intertemporal aspects of the...
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In this paper, I study the effect of remittances on economic growth of the Fiji Islands. I provide empirical evidences based on data for the period 1979-2007 that remittances have a positive and significant impact on growth of Fiji's economy. The investigation also indicates the need to...
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The link between remittances and economic growth is a controversial subject. While for some countries with relatively high and perpetual remittances inflow, the impact on growth may be positive, but this is not the case for all the remittance receiving countries. In this study, we use the Bounds...
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