International migration, economic development & policy / Çaḡlar Özden and Maurice Schiff, editors.
| Other author | Özden, Çaglar. |
| Other author | Schiff, Maurice W. |
| Other author | World Bank. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : World Bank ; Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xvii, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | International migration, economic development, and policy |
| Series | Trade and development series |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007011294 |
| ISBN | 9780821369357 |
| ISBN | 0821369350 |
| ISBN | 0821369369 (electronic) |
| ISBN | 9780821369364 (electronic) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |