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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 739–756.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Leah K. Vanwey Abstract Past research has questioned the extent to which remittances are altruistic behaviors versus payments in a contractual relationship between households and migrants. This article explores altruistic and contractual patterns of remittances using a gendered approach...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 673–698.
Published: 21 December 2013
...Filiz Garip Abstract This article studies the impact of internal migration and remittance flows on wealth accumulation and distribution in 51 rural villages in Nang Rong, Thailand. Using data from 5,449 households, the study constructs indices of household productive and consumer assets...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1279–1301.
Published: 13 February 2013
...Theodore P. Gerber; Karine Torosyan Abstract The economic impact of remittances on migrant-sending countries has been a subject of debate in the scholarly literature on migration. We consider the topic using a household-level approach. We use a new survey, “Georgia on the Move,” to examine migrant...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1335–1360.
Published: 21 August 2012
...Filiz Garip Abstract To evaluate the distributional impact of remittances in origin communities, prior research studied how migrants’ selectivity by wealth varies with migration prevalence in the community or prior migration experience of the individual. This study considers both patterns...
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in Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 2 Women's empowerment by spousal migration, remittances, and spousal contact. Sources: MHSS1 (1996–1997) and MHSS2 (2012–2014). p values indicate the significance of t test statistics: * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001.
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in Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data
> Demography
Published: 21 August 2012
Fig. 1 Changes in migrant composition, remittance patterns, wealth distribution and inequality in high- vs. low-migration communities in the MMP (1975–1995)
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Demography (1999) 36 (3): 339–353.
Published: 01 August 1999
... progression, and test several related hypotheses. Findings suggest higher rates of infant mortality in communities experiencing intense U.S. migration. However, two factors diminish the disruptive effects of migration: migradollars, or migrant remittances to villages, and the institutionalization of migration...
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Demography (1996) 33 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 May 1996
... funds are channeled into productive investment. We argue that this view is misleading because it ignores the conditions under which productive investment is likely to be possible and profitable. We analyze the determinants of migrants’ savings and remittance decisions, using variables defined...
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Demography (1993) 30 (2): 209–226.
Published: 01 May 1993
... characteristics associated with economic disadvantage. At both the individual and the household level, older women have fewer resources than older men. Even within categories of support (work income and remittances), women have lower levels of well-being. Gender differences in household-level economic well-being...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 191–217.
Published: 01 February 2021
... is most often present in the context of rural-urban migration and is more pronounced in sending localities with less democratic political structures. Moreover, using spatial network models, we find evidence for the transmission of political remittances from migration destination municipalities to origin...
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Demography (2021) 58 (5): 1765–1792.
Published: 01 October 2021
... emphasis on education if they aspire to follow in their parents' migratory footsteps. On the other hand, parental migration often leads to monetary transfers (remittances), which reduces financial pressure on sending households and can strengthen educational aspirations among children left behind. Because...
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 February 1989
...-rural income transfers in Kenya: An estimated remittances function . Economic Development and Cultural Change , 22 , 473 – 479 . 10.1086/450731 Lee , L. ( 1978 ). Unionism and wage rates: A simultaneous equations model with qualitative and limited dependent variables . International...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 769–795.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Fig. 2 Women's empowerment by spousal migration, remittances, and spousal contact. Sources: MHSS1 (1996–1997) and MHSS2 (2012–2014). p values indicate the significance of t test statistics: * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001. ...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 73–99.
Published: 23 February 2011
... of productive labor capacity against the aggregate financial gains from remittances (Taylor 1999 ). Relatively little is known about the social and community-level effects of migration in sending areas, and less still about whether and how efforts abroad shape the individual behaviors and ambitions of family...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1573–1600.
Published: 23 June 2015
... and their remittances, reaching more than $20 billion annually by the mid-2000s, provide between 2 % and 3 % of Mexican gross domestic product (GDP) (World Bank 2011 ). One-sixth of contemporary U.S. birth cohorts are children of Mexican-origin mothers (Martin et al. 2010 ), and Mexico faces care concerns...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1303–1314.
Published: 26 January 2013
... send sizable remittances to families, these may not begin for months or years after a migrant’s departure. Moreover, remittances are often important but incomplete substitutes for the emotional, caregiving, and disciplinary roles filled by coresident parents (Dreby 2010 ; Goldring 2004 ; Hondagneu...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 75–102.
Published: 04 January 2019
... favored of these destinations in Asia are South Korea, Malaysia, and Japan; the favored destinations in the West are the countries of Western Europe, North America, and Australia. Remittances from international migrants are very important elements of the Nepali economy; they accounted for roughly 29...
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Demography (2011) 48 (3): 1029–1048.
Published: 21 June 2011
..., in addition to comparing migrants’ wives and nonmigrants’ wives, we distinguish between wives of more-successful and wives of less-successful migrants. We define migration success in two ways: on the basis of remittances received from migrant husbands and on the basis of women’s own assessments of the impact...
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Demography (1996) 33 (3): 357–374.
Published: 01 August 1996
... and International Migration in Guadalajara . In S. Diaz-Briquets , & S. Weintraub (Eds.), Migration, Remittances, and Small Business Development: Mexico and Caribbean Basin Countries (pp. 135 – 73 ). Boulder : Westview . Evans J.S. , & James D.D. ( 1979 ). Conditions...
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 183–209.
Published: 22 January 2011
... social penalty associated with children’s migration (Frankenberg et al. 2002 ; Keasberry 2001 ; Knodel and Debavalya 1997 ; Rahman 2001 ). For example, remittances, or economic transfers, from migrants to the left-behind can improve the standard of living of the elderly on a daily basis (Asis 2006...
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