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International migration, economic development & policy / Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors.

Contributor(s): Özden, Çaglar | Schiff, Maurice W | World BankMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Trade and development seriesPublication details: Washington, DC : Basingstoke ; New York : World Bank ; Palgrave Macmillan, c2007. Description: xvii, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780821369357; 0821369350; 0821369369 (electronic); 9780821369364 (electronic)Other title: International migration, economic development, and policySubject(s): Emigration and immigration | Emigrant remittances | Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspectsDDC classification: 304.8 LOC classification: JV6035 | .I516 2007Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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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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, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjetil Sørlie.

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