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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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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
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Worker remittances and capital flows
Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Le Manchec, … - 2002
The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows - foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475864
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Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - 2018
, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821194
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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …
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The impact of migration on family left behind : estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants
Murard, Elie - 2019
This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250039
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Migration dynamics
Stark, Oded; Wang, You-qiang - 2002
dynamics of migration. -- migration dynamics ; migrants' transfers ; follow-up migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725495
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Determinants of workers’ remittances: evidence from the European Neighbouring Region
Schiopu, Ioana; Siegfried, Nikolaus - 2006
Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus investment motives using a new panel data set of bilateral...
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733