Temporary migration and capital market imperfections

By A. Mesnard. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence for Germany, 1967-2009 (2006, neutral): “Micro studies indicate that up to 80 per cent of the migrants in Europe eventually return home (Dustmann, 1995, 2003; Karras and Chiswick, 1999; Mesnard, 2004).”
Children and return migration (2003, background): “Recent research has established a link between immigrant performance and social as well as economic adaptation, and (intended) duration of residence in the host country (see Dustmann 2000 for an”
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks (2008, neutral): “Kirchkamp (2002), Woodruff and Zenteno (2007), and Mesnard (2004) on entrepreneurship and small business investment in a variety of countries; Adams (1998) on agricultural land in Pakistan; Cox-Edwards and Ureta (2003) on child schooling in El Salvador; Taylor et al. (2003) on agricultural investm”
Return Migration and Occupational Choice (2009, positive): “This is often the case when capital constraints in the home economy hinder individuals from starting an enterprise, and migration is used as a strategy to accumulate the needed start up funds (Mesnard, 2004).”
The Economics of Temporary Migrations (2016, background): “At that time, the average wage in Poland was 17 percent of the average nominal wage in the United Kingdom (40 percent in real terms).1 We now consider the same migrant in two scenarios: In the first, the migration is permanent and the migrant remains in the United Kingdom for the remainder of her…”
Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania (2007, neutral): “In addition, Mesnard (2004) also models migration as a way to overcome credit constraints in the presence of capital market failures and demonstrates that the majority of entrepreneurial projects started by Tunisian returnees were financed through overseas savings.”
Self-employment and intention of permanent urban settlement: Evidence from a survey of migrants in China’s four major urbanising areas (2015, background): “Third, as the self-employed must make larger initial investments than wage-earners, self-employed migrants are usually less mobile than their wage-earning counterparts, and the optimal duration of their stay in cities is longer (Mesnard, 2004).”
The labour-market performance of recent migrants (2008, background): “5 migration can be used to raise financial capital abroad in order to start a business or for housing in the home country because of capital market imperfections (Mesnard, 2004).”
Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt (2003, neutral): “Fax: +44 23 80 593858, E-mail: bmc@soton.ac.uk, j.wahba@soton.ac.uk 1”
Work-Related Migration and Poverty Reduction in Nepal (2007, background): “In the alternative framework of life-cycle maximization with perfect foresight and endogenous migration decision (Mesnard 2004) the exclusion restrictions for our instruments would not be valid.”
Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China (2010, methodology): “10 Examples of this approach can be found in both internal and international migration studies (Arif & Irfan, 1997; Ilahi, 1999; Ma, 2001; Mesnard 2004) that focus on the role of migration experience in the occupational mobility of return migrants.”
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital (2012, neutral): “Using (1), this equation is given by: e = [ ( −)− ( − )]  (18)”
Remittances and savings from international migration: Theory and evidence using a matched sample (2007, background): “In particular, migrants' remittances may finance investments in the country of origin in the form of land and housing acquisition, financial assets, and microenterprises (Adams, 1991; Dustmann and Kirchkamp, 2002; Mesnard, 2004; Woodruff and Zenteno, 2004).”
Remittances and inequality: a dynamic migration model (2010, background): “This is confirmed empirically for example by Ilahi [14] for Pakistan, Mesnard [21, 22] and Mesnard and Ravallion [23] for Tunisia, Dustmann and Kirchkamp [10] for Turkey, or Woodruff and Zenteno [34] for Mexico.”