Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind
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- Artjoms Ivlevs & Milena Nikolova & Carol Graham, 2019. "Emigration, remittances, and the subjective well-being of those staying behind," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 32(1), pages 113-151, January.
- Ivlevs, Artjoms & Nikolova, Milena & Graham, Carol Lee, 2018. "Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind," IZA Discussion Papers 11437, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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Keywords
migration; remittances; depression; stress; Cantril ladder of life; happiness; Gallup World Poll;JEL classification:
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2018-05-14 (All new papers)
- NEP-HAP-2018-05-14 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-INT-2018-05-14 (International Trade)
- NEP-LTV-2018-05-14 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
- NEP-MIG-2018-05-14 (Economics of Human Migration)
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