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Short courses masters
Migration and Remittance Effects
9 March to 5
April
Workload:
t.b.a.
Faculty: t.b.a.
Assessment: t.b.a.
Content and objectives
Have you ever wondered if
migration is good or bad for the
migrant receiving country and
what effects it has one the
sending country? What about the
money sent by migrants back to
their home countries? Does this
have only positive effects?
Theses are some of the issues
that will be touched on in this
class. Special attention will be
paid to labor market issues in
the receiving country and
development issues in the
sending country.
Literature
- Cichon et al.:
Financing Social
Protection, Geneva 2004
- Barr, N: Reforming
pensions: Myth, Truths
and policy choices (IMF
working paper),
Washington, 2000
- Barr, N.: The
economics of the Welfare
state, Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, London, 1993
- ILO: Introduction to
social security, Geneva
1989
- World Bank: Social
Protection Sector
Strategy: From Safety
Net to springboard,
Washington, 2001
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