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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
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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. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries. …
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Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a … discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents and characterizes the Romanian migration through the different phases … Romanian migration addressing the remitting behavior and its development over the past years. The issue of return migration is …
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The Central and East European countries are affected after the fall of the communism, by the international migration … that the remittances have on the economic development of the country, on investments and exports in Romania. The … the economic development of Romania expressed in the GDP, or the investments or the exports. …
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potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …
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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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