International migration, economic development & policy / Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors.
International migration has become a central element of international relations and global integration due to its rapidly increasing economic, social, and cultural impact in both source and destination countries. This book provides new evidence on the impact of migration and remittances on several d...
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Washington, DC : Basingstoke ; New York :
World Bank ; Palgrave Macmillan,
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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, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjetil Sørlie.