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Remittances and informal work (2016)
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© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of remittances on informal employment in the migrants’ countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. D... Read More about Remittances and informal work.

Kosovo - Winning its Independence but Losing its People? Recent Evidence on Emigration Intentions and Preparedness to Migrate (2015)
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© 2015 International Organization for Migration. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008, but substantial proportions of its population are expressing their lack of confidence by preparing to emigrate. In this paper, we present... Read More about Kosovo - Winning its Independence but Losing its People? Recent Evidence on Emigration Intentions and Preparedness to Migrate.

Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe (2015)
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We study the individual-level determinants of bribing public officials. Particular attention is paid to the issue of respondents’ non-random selection into contact with public officials, which may result in biased estimates. Data come from the 2010 L... Read More about Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe.

Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions (2015)
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© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, policymakers across the world... Read More about Happy Moves? Assessing the Link between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions.

Global economic crisis and corruption (2014)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We study the effects of the 2008–2009 global economic crisis on the household experience of bribing public officials. The data come from the Life in Transition-2 survey, conducted in 2010 in 30 post-s... Read More about Global economic crisis and corruption.

2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia (2014)
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One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and... Read More about 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia.

Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective (2014)
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This paper studies the individual and household-level determinants of economic insecurity in post-socialist countries. Exploring subjective, backward- and forward-looking measures of economic insecurity, the paper focuses on: (1) the perceptions of p... Read More about Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective.

Minorities on the move? Assessing post-enlargement emigration intentions of Latvia's Russian speaking minority (2013)
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Are ethnic minorities more likely to emigrate from the new EU Member States? Who are the potential minority and majority migrants? This paper studies emigration intentions of the Russian speaking minority in Latvia after the 2004 EU enlargement. Usin... Read More about Minorities on the move? Assessing post-enlargement emigration intentions of Latvia's Russian speaking minority.

From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia (2012)
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© 2012, Ivļevs and King; licensee Springer. We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by ‘non-citizens’ – the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serv... Read More about From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia.

Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo (2012)
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Does an extra year of schooling augment one's propensity to migrate? In a naive regression, which does not account for the potential reverse causality and omitted variables, the coefficient of education is likely to be biased. To deal with the proble... Read More about Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo.

Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy (2012)
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Ivļevs A. Ageing, local birth rates and attitudes towards immigration:evidence from a transition economy, Regional Studies. This paper studies the links between local birth rates and individual attitudes towards immigration, focusing on Latvia - a co... Read More about Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy.

Family migration capital and migration intentions (2012)
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Does a history of migration in the family influence one's decision to move abroad? This paper argues that intergenerational transmission of 'migration capital' accumulated in the family is a significant determinant of current decisions to migrate. Us... Read More about Family migration capital and migration intentions.

The brain drain, FDI and trade: Channels and evidence (2011)
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The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states (2009)
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Two European geographers and an economist analyze the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic recession on remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Drawing on balance-of-payments data as well as information on money transfers to and fro... Read More about The impact of global economic crisis on remittances in the commonwealth of independent states.