• Media type: Book
  • Title: International migration, economic development & policy
  • Contains: 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: hypothesis and application to the 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 -- Return to overseas work experience: the case of Egypt / Jackline Wahba -- Foreign-born migration to and from Norway / Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbiørn Raaum, Kietil SørlieInternational Migration and Development Research Program
  • Contributor: Özden, Çağlar [Editor]; Schiff, Maurice W. [Editor]
  • Corporation: Weltbank
  • Published: Washington, DC [u.a.]: World Bank [u.a.], 2007
  • Published in: Trade and development series
  • Extent: XVII, 299 S.; graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0821369369; 9780821369357; 0821369350; 0821370286; 9780821369357
  • RVK notation: MS 3600 : Emigranten, Immigranten, Flüchtlinge
    MS 5200 : Beruf und Spezialisierung (allgemeines)
    QU 400 : Geographische Verteilung. Wanderung
    RB 10594 : Aus-und Einwanderung, Rückwanderung
  • Keywords: Wirtschaft > Internationale Migration
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: 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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