International migration, economic development & policy
By: Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors
Contributors: Özden, Çaglar; Schiff, Maurice W; World Bank
Series: Trade and development series
Publisher: World Bank; Palgrave Macmillan; World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780821369357; 9780821369364; 9780821370285
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Emigrant remittances; Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Other titles: International migration, economic development, and policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Global migration database; title: Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks / Christopher R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters; title: Impact on development; title: The impact of remittances on poverty and human capital: evidence from Latin American household surveys / Pablo Acosta, Pablo Fajnzylber, and J. Humberto Lopez; title: Does work migration spur investment in origin communities? Entrepreneurship, schooling and child health in rural Pakistan / Ghazala Mansuri; title: Entrepreneurship, labor markets, and international remittances: evidence from El Salvador / Pablo Acosta; title: The demographic benefit of international migration: a hypothesis and its application to Middle Eastern and North African contexts / Phillippe Fargues; title: Host country policy effects; title: Immigration incentives and policy in Switzerland / Dominique M. Gross; title: The impact of an ex-ante job offer requirement on labor migration: the New Zealand-Tongan experience / John Gibson and David McKenzie; title: Return migration; title: Returns to overseas work experience: the case of Egypt / Jackline Wahba; title: Foreign-born migration to and from Norway / Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjetil Sørlie