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The paper shows that in a reasonable production structure for a developing economy a brain drain of skilled labour may raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled / unskilled labour lowers the urban unemployment of...
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In this paper we review the current state of literature on the determinants of remittances since it is important to … understand remittance flows from a policy perspective since they affect the lives of so many people around the world. While the … decision to remit may be clearly linked to the causes of migration, for example, in the theory the New Economics of Labour …
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world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …
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world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …
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Studies that examine the long-run impact of remittances on economic growth in West Africa and the Caribbean show that … remittances are not growth enhancing. Money has been used toward consumption rather than investment. Because migrants from these … panels, we show that there is a long-run significant impact of workers' remittances on income while the impact on consumption …
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