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We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...
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We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289173
with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as …-economic features of three migration waves. Individual demographic characteristics of the migrant are analysed as well as economic … features including the income situation and the remitting behaviour. We furthermore discuss the nature of migration - if it is …
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with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as …-economic features of three migration waves. Individual demographic characteristics of the migrant are analysed as well as economic … features including the income situation and the remitting behaviour. We furthermore discuss the nature of migration - if it is …
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that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if … migration is only temporary. Altogether, this signals positive payoffs of educational expenses to rural households but …
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that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if … migration is only temporary. Altogether, this signals positive payoffs of educational expenses to rural households but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799781
Internal migration flows in Kazakhstan are of high social and political relevance but political and public attention … survey on migration and remittances in Kazakhstan which was conducted in four cities (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and Pavlodar … respondents, illustrates migration experiences on the individual and the household level and compares migrants and non …
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different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of …'s territory, without adjusting for migration. Measures of the ethnic or linguistic heterogeneity of a country's current population …
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no detectable impact on the overall volume of migration, but did influence the flow by route and, probably, the frequency … Europe, and seasonally somewhat opposite to migration) because capacity utilization could be raised by using the same … migration seem to have been mostly a (further contributing) cause, but also partly an effect, of conversion from open to closed …
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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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