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Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper uses micro-level remittance transaction data collected from money transfer service providers to estimate the...
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. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate …
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Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … 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 …
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Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
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As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is … international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …
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This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa …
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classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration …
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This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and health risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using various measures of occupational risks, it first shows that immigrant workers, especially those coming from lower-income...
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This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...
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This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the Household Budget Survey to assess the effects of government taxation and social spending on poverty and inequality in Moldova. The paper presents the first detailed distributional analysis of the tax and...
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