Documents et rapports
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Labour mobility and intrafamilial income transfers : theory and evidence from Botswana (anglais)
Remittances by migrants, along with migration itself, are elements in a migrant-family's intertemporal contractual arrangement. This paper discusses the reasons why the migrant and his family voluntarily...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD282 Date du document: 1 janvier 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stark,Oded,Lucas,Robert E. B.
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Labour allocation across labour markets under different informational schemes and the costs and benefits of signalling (anglais)
The effect of informational asymmetry on the level and skill composition of international migration and on the level of output are examined first, in the absence of signalling and, second, when a signalling...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD280 Date du document: 1 janvier 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stark,Oded,Katz, Eliakim
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Labour migration, income inequality and remittances : a case study of Mexico (anglais)
This paper uses the extended Gini inequality index to examine the sensitivity of measurements of impacts of migrant remittances on the distribution of household income by size to different value judgements...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD283 Date du document: 1 janvier 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stark,Oded,Taylor,John Edward,Yitzhaki,Shlomo
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Mobility, skill and information (anglais)
In this paper we state and prove several results which may arise as a result of international migration taking place under asymmetric information. We note that whereas under symmetric information several...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD281 Date du document: 1 janvier 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stark,Oded,Katz, Eliakim