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South-South Migration and Remittances reports on preliminary results from an ongoing effort to improve data on … of South-South remittances range from 9 to 30 percent of developing countries' remittance receipts in 2005. Although the … increases in income can have substantial welfare implications for the poor. The costs of South-South remittances are even higher …
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This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how Philippine migrants' return decisions respond to major, unexpected exchange rate changes in their overseas locations (due to the Asian financial crisis). Overall, the evidence favors...
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associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …
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of remittances sent back by migrants to their families of origin. In agricultural settings, where those left behind are …
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remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine peso remittances with respect to the Philippine …
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This paper examines the impact of migration on earnings inequality using 1940--2015 data from the U.S. census and American Community Survey. Despite measurement challenges, I successfully replicate existing findings regarding national trends in earnings inequality and migration, and subsequently...
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