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terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases …This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in …
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We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours … between a 'pure' migration (M) effect and the joint effect of migration and remittance income (MR) and evaluate these effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271122
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration … find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … possible by the flow of remittances. …
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We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours … between a 'pure' migration ("M") effect and the joint effect of migration and remittance income ("MR") and evaluate these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578346
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration … find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … possible by the flow of remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876570
This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … migrant households, we investigate whether the reasons for inactivity, i.e. leisure consumption, home production and higher … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273125
growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by … dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516186
This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … migrant households, we investigate whether the reasons for inactivity, i.e. leisure consumption, home production and higher … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755127
This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force … examines the income remittance and the conjugal home-time effects of overseas migration. Addressing the potential endogeneity … of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and …
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This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their … family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits … in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a given real volume of remittances back to the family in the sending …
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