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International migration, economic development & policy
Title
International migration, economic development & policy / Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors.
ISBN
9780821369357
0821369350
0821369369 (electronic)
9780821369364 (electronic)
Published
Washington, DC : World Bank ; Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.
Physical Description
xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Variant and related titles
International migration, economic development, and policy.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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