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Has Emigration Influenced Kerala's Living Standards?

Sushanta K Banerjee, +2 more
- 04 May 2002 - 
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The impact of job migration on households across Kerala has its impact on a greater flow of remittances from abroad, which in turn leads to improved living standards and increased consumption levels, and more long-term changes related to education.
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The impact of job migration on households across Kerala has its impact on a greater flow of remittances from abroad, which in turn leads to improved living standards and increased consumption levels More long-term changes, as this paper emphasises, are related to education Higher educated workers spend more time abroad, while for the women, an increased access to education also leads to improved health indicators - a decline in the overall birth rate and a lowering of infant mortality rates

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Social remittances reconsidered

Peggy Levitt, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the concept of social remittances and showed how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands.
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India Migration Bibliography

Chinmay Tumbe
- 01 Jul 2012 - 
TL;DR: The India Migration Bibliography as mentioned in this paper covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India.
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Migration persistence across twentieth century India

Chinmay Tumbe
- 25 Oct 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the remarkable persistence of remittance-based migrations in India across the twentieth century is discussed, highlighting the importance of social networks and deep rooted migration cultures influenced by source region conditions, in explaining migration persistence.
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Reproductive liberty and overpopulation

Carol A. Kates
- 01 Feb 2004 - 
TL;DR: This article argued that reproductive liberty should not be considered a fundamental human right, or certainly not an indefeasible right, and should, instead, be strictly regulated by a global agreement designed to reduce population to a sustainable level.
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International Migration, Remittances and Labour Force Participation of Left-behind Family Members: A Study of Kerala:

M. Imran Khan, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of international migration on the labour supply of male and female left-behind household members in both market and non-market work and examined the labo...
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Gulf money in Kerala: coping with the problems of plenty.

R Kurian, +1 more
TL;DR: The recent phenomenon of emigration from Kerala to the Gulf countries and the increasing inflow of remittances is having a tremendous impact on Kerala's economy and the hopes of politicians and administrators of tapping these resources to solve the problems of economic development are kindled.