International migration, economic development and policy / Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff, editors.
Material type: TextSeries: Trade and development series | World Bank e-LibraryPublisher: Washington, DC : Basingstoke ; New York : World Bank ; Palgrave Macmillan, [2007]Copyright date: copyright 2007Description: xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
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- 0821369350
- 0821369369 (electronic)
- 9780821369357
- 9780821369364 (electronic)
- International migration, economic development, and policy
- 304.8 22
- JV6035 .I516 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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