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During many years Tajikistan has been the world leader in terms of the ratio of remittances to GDP. Late 2000s and early 2010s were the years of migration boom when the country’s dependence on financial streams from migration was established and the effects of migration started being evident. Much of these effects were driven by the characteristics of migrants and their households and the context of the country. This chapter reviews recent evidence on the effects that migration has on the lives of households in Tajikistan. Using data from a panel household survey, this chapter describes migrants’ profile and factors of migration decision with a special focus on migrant skills and their households’ wealth.
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The two rounds were conducted by the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan with the participation of the World Bank and UNICEF in October–November 2007 and 2009, see http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/72 and http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/73
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The survey was initiated by The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Germany) and conducted jointly with the Research Center “Shark” in Dushanbe, see http: //www.lambda.ios-regensburg.de/doi/thps_2011.html
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The analysis of migrants’ legalization has some complications in TLLS data. In 2007 and 2011 the question was asked with the wording “Did you work legally?” Whereas in 2009 questions were asked about the availability of a work permit before and after migrant started to work. In addition, the data for 2007 are not fully indicative, as they represent only a small sample of migrants who were at home at the time of the survey.
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Chernina, E. (2020). Selection Patterns During Migration Boom: The Case of Tajikistan. In: Denisenko, M., Strozza, S., Light, M. (eds) Migration from the Newly Independent States. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7_11
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