Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt

By B. McCormick, J. Wahba. 2003

138 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Frédéric Docquier
2. Hein de Haas
3. Hillel Rapoport
4. Phanindra V. Wunnava
5. Jeffrey H. Cohen
6. Richard Black
7. Paul M. Vaaler
8. Aniruddha Mitra

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Frédéric Docquier
2. Hein de Haas
3. Hillel Rapoport
4. Paul M. Vaaler
5. Jeffrey H. Cohen
6. A. Castaldo
7. Phanindra V. Wunnava
8. Richard Black

Citations in the corpus

• Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “While in some cases most remittance-driven investments have remained within the sending region (de Haas 2006), in others cases migrants prefer to invest in more distant (urban) areas outside the migrant-sending region (McCormick and Wahba 2003).”
• Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Kenyan case (2016, background): “McCormick and Wahba (2003) find that (relatively richer) urban areas receivedmore remittances than rural areas.”
• RETURN MIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN GHANA AND CÔTE D’IVOIRE: THE ROLE OF CAPITAL TRANSFERS (2009, methodology): “© 2009 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG A distinctive feature of McCormick and Wahba’s (2003) model is that they estimate the differential impact of savings and duration abroad for literate and illiterate returnees. This was not possible with our dataset, as all returnees had at least pr”
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital (2012, unknown): “etre R etnm , SnmHre SreHnm Hre Hnm R IU +K IV (20)”
• Mobility and Human Development (2009, background): “Whereas in some cases most remittance-driven investments have been allocated in sending regions (de Haas 2006a), in others cases migrants prefer to invest in urban areas (McCormick and Wahba 2003).”
• Immigrant remittances and the venture investment environment of developing countries (2011, background): “…analyses documenting the quantity and quality of venture investing by immigrants from Albania (Kilic et al., 2007), China (Ghosh, 2006), Egypt (McCormick & Wahba, 2003), India (Kuznetsov & Sabel, 2006), Mexico (Demirgüç-Kunt, Ló pez Có rdova, Martínez Pería & Woodruff, 2011; Woodruff &…”
• Remittance outcomes and migration: Theoretical contests, real opportunities (2005, background): “Unfortunately, this shift also tends to increase rural-urban inequalities and stress urban services (McCormick and Wahba, 2003).”
• Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania (2007, unknown): “A similar finding is shown by McCormick and Wahba (2004) for Egypt: the proceedings from return migration promote investments in small household enterprises, with the largest share of investments going towards urban areas. Dustmann et al. (2002) develop a model where migrants decide simultaneously o”
• The Economics of Migrants' Remittances (2005, background): “In an attempt to analyze the welfare consequences of remittances and the determinants of international migration (and unemployment) in a unified framework, McCormick and Wahba (2000) recently proposed a model where migration and remittances are jointly determined.”