Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns
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Keywords
labor migration; remittances; consumption shares; Tajikistan;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2015-01-19 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-DEM-2015-01-19 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2015-01-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
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