Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 299 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg s.l.
Series Statement:
Trade and development series
Series Statement:
World Bank E-Library Archive 041181-4
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Emigrant remittances
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Emigration and immigration / Economic aspects
Description / Table of Contents:
Global migration database -- Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks/Christopher R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters -- Impact on development -- The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin American household surveys/Pablo Acosta, Pablo Fajnzylber, and J. Humberto Lopez -- Does work migration spur investment in origin communities? Entrepreneurship, schooling and child health in rural Pakistan/Ghazala Mansuri -- Entrepreneurship, labor markets, and international remittances: evidence from El Salvador/Pablo Acosta -- The demographic benefit of international migration: a hypothesis and its application to Middle Eastern and North African contexts/Phillippe Fargues -- Host country policy effects -- Immigration incentives and policy in Switzerland/Dominique M. Gross -- The impact of an ex-ante job offer requirement on labor migration: the New Zealand-Tongan experience/John Gibson and David McKenzie -- Return migration -- Returns to overseas work experience: the case of Egypt/Jackline Wahba -- Foreign-born migration to and from Norway/Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjorn Raaum, Kjetil Sorlie.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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