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Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery
Social Science Research Network, 2023 South Asians traveling to richer Asian nations is the world's largest migration corridor. We track down applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis for temporary labor contracts in Malaysia, five years later.
A. Mobarak +2 more
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Do Remittances Matter for Poverty Reduction in ASEAN?
, 2021 This study examined the influence of remittances and macro-economic variables on poverty in ASEAN-4 countries (i.e., Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines) over the 1991 to 2019 period using a panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL ...
Taufiq Fahrizal +2 more
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Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin
The American Economic Review, 2018 We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so, the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable natives.
Christoph Albert, Joan Monras
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Determinants of Workers' Remittances: Evidence from the European Neighbouring Region
Social Science Research Network, 2006 Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial.
Ioana Schiopu, N. Siegfried
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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender: parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador
, 2013 This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing,
K. Göbel
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Journal of Humanities, Social Science and Creative Arts, 2019 This study provides additional information about the drivers of external reserves in Nigeria. The result using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model estimation approach for the period 1980-2015 shows that remittances, among other macroeconomic ...
E. Olubiyi, A. Raheem, A. Ademokoya
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Remittances and child labor in Bolivia
, 2016 This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using household survey data, we find that children in remittance-receiving households are less likely to be actively supplying labor, and the ...
Michael Coon
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Migration, Remittances and Development: Insights from the Migration and Development Conference
, 2017 The paper provides an overview of the most recent results in the literature on the role of financial flows in the migration-development nexus. Drawing on the papers presented in the ?Migration and Development?
F. Gubert
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, 2019 Este trabajo analiza como las remesas internacionales, ayudan a los hogares a paliar su pobreza. Se toman como referencia, dos localidades indigenas de Oaxaca y una urbana en Michoacan, en estas se realizaron entrevistas a jefes de hogar para indagar ...
Renato Salas Alfaro +2 more
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Migration and Educational Policies
, 2008 Do migratory flows affect government educational policies? This work briefly summarizes my research on the effects of migration and remittances on educational policies of both developing and developed countries.
Biagio Speciale
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