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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009

. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 … siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find important …

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Motivations for remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrants abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274686

Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074

Motivations for remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Piracha, Matloob; Saraogi, Amrita - 2011

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrant family members abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research question from the perspective of the recipient household and use it to interpret the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277816

Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282554

Do migrants send remittances as a way of self-insurance? : evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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A socio-economic picture of Kosovar migrants and their origin farm households

Möllers, Judith; Meyer, Wiebke; Xhema, Sherif; … - 2013

Arbeitsmigranten in Deutschland. Es werden hierbei beide Seiten der Migration ins Auge gefasst, also sowohl die Migranten selbst als … Migrationsmotive und geben Einblick in die soziökonomische Situation der Migranten. Wir gehen dabei auch auf die Dauer der Migration … with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as …

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Economic resources, financial aid and remittances

Boulanger Martel, Simon Pierre; Pelling, Lisa; … - 2018

According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total official aid to the same countries. The practice of...

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Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa

Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581651

Remittances and the brain drain : evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa

Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, … - 2016

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558124