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Migration from Nicaragua: some recent evidence
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This paper examined migration from and remittance flows to the capital city of Managua, Nicaragua and found that approximately 10% to 12% of the population has emigrated, and these emigrants tend to be disproportionately of working age, better educated, and more often white-collar workers than nonmigrants.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 1992-08-01. It has received 240 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Remittance & Human migration.read more
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Migration networks and microenterprises in Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of attachment to migration networks on the level of capital investment, the capital output ratio, sales, and profits of microenterprises in Mexico and found that attachment to the migration network alleviated capital constraints in those sectors.
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Workers' Remittances and the Real Exchange Rate: A Paradox of Gifts
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of workers' remittances on the real exchange rate using a panel of 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries was analyzed and it was shown that remittance has the potential to inflict economic costs on the export sector of receiving countries by reducing its international competitiveness.
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Are International Remittances Altruism or Insurance? Evidence from Guyana Using Multiple-Migrant Households
TL;DR: This paper developed a simple theoretical model that yields distinct testable predictions for each motivation and found significant differences in remittance behavior of multiple and single migrants and these differences support the altruistic incentive to remit.
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Remittances and the Dutch Disease
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and estimated a two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of remittances in emerging market economies and found that an increase in remittance flows leads to a decline in labor supply and a consumption demand that is biased toward nontradables.
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Remittances from international migration: a comparison of El Salvador and Nicaragua.
TL;DR: This article examined the determinants of remittances from international migration using household data from El Salvador and Nicaragua and found that the difference in the behavioral coefficients and the self-selection bias of those who remit out of the pool of emigrants between the two countries was explained by differences in the selfselection bias.
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Mass Emigration, Remittances, and Economic Adjustment: The Case of El Salvador in the 1980s
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Mass Emigration, Remittances, and Economic Adjustment: The Case of El Salvador in the 1980s
Informe sobre el estado de las migraciones en Centroamérica
TL;DR: In this paper, causas directas y subyacentes de la migraciones forzadas son analizadas, destacando el papel o la violencia institucionalizada perpetrada by las politicas gubernamentales de contrainsurgencia.
El impacto economico-social del refugiado centroamericano en costa rica
TL;DR: The fenomeno migratorio entendido como el desplazamiento de seres humanos de un territorio a otro, continua siendo muy importante a pesar de su antiguedad, por el impacto global that implica su ocurrencia in una sociedad as discussed by the authors.