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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269660
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527305
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744666
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
ethno-linguistic and genetic fractionalization, geography, trade, education, institutions, and origin-effects capturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718612
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839273
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884222
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
ethno-linguistic and genetic fractionalization, geography, trade, education, institutions, and origin-effects capturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328934
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329097
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - 2014
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333265
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278546