UID:
almahu_9949191311302882
Format:
xvii, 299 pages :
,
illustrations ;
,
23 cm.
ISBN:
0821369350
,
0821369369 (electronic)
,
9780821369357
,
9780821369364 (electronic)
Series Statement:
Trade and development series
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print Version: ISBN 9780821369357
Language:
English
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-6935-7
