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, as yet little is known in terms of hard-core evidence about the effects of asylum-driven migration processes on the …-North migration process, and several international decision makers, especially on the European level, are increasingly stressing the …-term strategy, published in 2012 – vehemently argue in favour of a clear separation between legal, employment-related migration and …
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This chapter uses matching techniques and a recent nationally representative household survey for Yemen combined with weather data to measure the impact of remittances, both domestic and international, on poverty and human development outcomes (school enrolment, immunization, and malnutrition)....
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This paper studies migrants intentions to return to their origin country by making the distinction between permanent return, temporary return and participation in temporary return programmes. Using survey data from first generation migrants in the Netherlands, we explore how migrants experiences...
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This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that … has previously not received much attention in the migration literature, namely household subjective economic well …
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The aim of this paper is to study the extent to which transfers can contribute to a change in behavior that would be consistent with a reduction in discrimination against women remained in the country. To this end, this research uses macroeconomic aggregate data to check the effect of...
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to per natural measures. The peoples of the least developed countries stand to gain the most from international migration …, but there are potentially significant gains to migration between developing countries as well. …
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to per natural measures. The peoples of the least developed countries stand to gain the most from international migration …, but there are potentially significant gains to migration between developing countries as well. …
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While everyone agrees that GDP per capita is an inadequate measure of a country’s overall “development” it is difficult to specify what, if anything, should take its place as a useful single summary number (or even just ranking). The Human Development Index is a prominent alternative which...
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Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in … developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the … receiving regions, whether internal migration improves or deteriorates human development is not easy to determine. This papers …
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Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing …
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