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This study aims to bridge the gap in the existing literature by examining the impact of prevailing traditional slavery institutions and democratization processes on human capital development. In our pursuit, we conducted a residential survey in Sumba Island, Indonesia. Notably, despite...
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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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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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We try to explain the differences between the performance (in both reading and math) of 8430 15-year-old daughters and 8526 15-year-old sons in 17 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development destination countries across Europe and Oceania with the PISA 2009 data from 45 origin...
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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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Public services in all countries are related to the basic needs that people should satisfy in order to warranty a worthy quality of life. The water and sanitation services provision is one of these services. Through this study, the case of water and sanitation provision in Peru will be analyzed....
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This paper uses a combination of secondary and primary data to provide a more comprehensive analysis of education, training and skill development policies in the Gulf countries. Different from earlier studies an interesting element in our analysis is that we discuss both the supply and demand...
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