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Migration and remittances in Haiti : their welfare impact on poor and non-poor households

Cardozo, Adriana R.; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; … - 2019

The purpose of this study is to identify a person's likelihood of emigrating to another country and to identify a household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of receiving remittances on household welfare, across...

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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2010

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Labour market integration, human capital formation, and mobility

Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014

In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...

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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2010

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation". In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …

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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models

Martins, Ana Paula - 2011

This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...

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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models

Martins, Ana Paula - 2011

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The impact of risk and mobility in dualistic models : migration under random shocks

Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 20 (2015) 38, pp. 2-20

In this paper we present and confront the expected outcome of an increase in risk on the regional or sectoral allocation of labor force and employment. The basic frameworks are the benchmark dualistic scenarios. A single-input analysis of a homogeneous product economy is provided. Uncertainty is...

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Growth Rate of Population Associated with High Terrorism Incidents in Society

Coccia, Mario - 2018

What is the growth rate of population that maximizes fatalities from the terrorist incidents? This is a fundamental problem in studies of terrorism and political violence. The paper confronts this question here by analyzing demographic and socioeconomic factors causing and sustaining terrorism...

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Globalisation and Wage Inequalities, 1870-1970

Anderson, Edward W.J - 1999

This paper studies the impact of globalisation on wage inequality in eight now-developed countries during the century prior to 1970, using the same dependent variable and methodology as research on the impact of globalisation since 1970. The results suggest that the impact of globalisation was...

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Fertility and migration

Garofalo, Arianna - 2022

Over the past three decades, the drop in fertility rates has been accompanied by highrates of migration in several … developing countries. We argue that migration affects fertilitynegatively in the countries of origin. To analyze the effect of … migration we build a fertilitychoice model, based on De La Croix (2014), with endogenous migration decisions. In thisframework …

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