Overseas Work Experience, Savings and Entrepreneurship Amongst Return Migrants to Ldcs

By B. McCormick, J. Wahba. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. Hein de Haas
2. M. Siegel
3. W. Naudé
4. Katrin Marchand
5. J. Wahba
6. Hui Xu
7. S. Démurger
8. B. McCormick

Citations in the corpus

• Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China (2010, background): “From a statistical point of view, it implies that repatriated savings must be considered as a potentially endogenous variable in the estimation of the return migrants’ occupational choice model 34 (Ilahi, 1999; Mesnard, 2004; McCormick & Wahba, 2001).”
• Remittance Receipt and Business Ownership in the Dominican Republic (2006, unknown): “…members.2 We also incorporate information on any previous business and US work experience of household members to account for the role that the importation of human capital may play in entrepreneurial activity (Portes and Guarnizo, 1991; McCormick and Wahba, 2001; and Dustmann and Kirchkamp, 2002).”
• International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks (2008, unknown): “4 For example: Brown (1994), Massey and Parrado (1998), McCormick and Wahba (2001) , Dustmann and”
• Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt (2003, background): “…and Kirchkamp (2002) and Mesnard (2000) who focus on the choice of occupational activity upon return between self-employment and waged work, and McCormick and Wahba (2001) who use a wide definition of entrepreneurship3, in this paper, we focus our analysis on a particular type of…”
• Return Migration and Occupational Choice (2009, unknown): “ideas) through exposure to the host country’s market economy environment (McCormick and Wahba, 2001; Dustmann and Kirchkamp, 2002).”
• Impact of remittances on economic growth and poverty reduction amongst CIS countries (2019, background): “More precisely, McCormick and Wahba (2001), using a survey of 1,526 Egyptian migrants in 1988, found that the majority of migrants who worked and earned money abroad became entrepreneurs, self-employed or business owners in Egypt.”
• Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, result): “Similar results were obtained for Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Romania and Tajikistan by Lianos and Pseiridis (2009) and by McCormick and Wahba (2001) for Egypt.”