Remittances, die Geldtransfers von Migranten in ihre Herkunftsländer, haben in der Diskussion um nachhaltige Entwicklung in den letzten Jahren vermehrt an Bedeutung gewonnen. Diese Arbeit betont das enorme Potential von Remittances, Entwicklungsprozesse in Bewegung zu setzen und zu finanzieren....

As more and more developed countries adopt policies that favor highly educated immigrants, the impact of such policies on developing countries remains unclear. Some researchers have argued that migrants who are more educated tend to bring their immediate family members to the host country, and...

We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees' labor-market integration by hiring them in their businesses. We analyze the universe of refugee cases without U.S. ties who were resettled in the United States between 2005 and...

Asian Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States' examines how nationals and migrants construct new relationships in the segregated socioeconomic spaces of the region (namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates).00Instead of assuming that segregation is...

We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a unique event in human history, i.e. the exodus of the Vietnamese Boat People to the US. This episode...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Measuring the future orientation and innovativeness of economies -- 2 Patterns of future orientation in Central...