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International migration, economic development & policy [electronic resource] / Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors

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International migration, economic development, and policy
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Washington, DC : World Bank ; Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.
Physical Description:
xvii, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:
Özden, Çaglar, Schiff, Maurice W., and World Bank
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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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ISBN:
9780821369357
0821369350
0821369369 (electronic)
9780821369364 (electronic)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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