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W wage differentials, 112, 198 Wagh, S., 286n5 welfare funds for migrants, 133, 228 West Bank and Gaza migration, 83, 304 remittance flows, 367 Western Union, 127–28 West Germany, migration to, 43. See also Germany Wilcox, W. F., 39 Williamson, Jeff, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42 Winters, L. Alan, 7, 35, 38 women migrants from Albania, 243 in Denmark, 298 future research needs, 11 irregular migration by, 311 migration costs for, 87 from Nepal, 82, 138 remittance rates of, 21 in South Africa, 359–62 in Spain, 257, 260–62, 261t from Tajikistan, 142 in Turkey, 305 in UK, 165 in U.S., 198, 211, 359–62 Workers Registration Scheme (UK), 47, 227 working capital formation, 53–64
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financial intermediaries’ decisions and, 58–62 literature review, 55 remittances, role of, 55–63 work permits, 92n5 World Bank on current account deficits and remittances, 286n5 on domestic demand driven by remittances, 253 growth forecast revisions in wake of financial crisis, 28 on private capital inflows, 30n1 on remittance costs, 319, 320 Remittance Price Database, 135n20 on remittances to South Asia, 78–79 on remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa, 346n1 World Development Indicators (World Bank), 329, 352 X Xu, Z., 77 Y Yang, D., 167 Yazgan, Pinar, 8, 295 Yemen, Rep. migration, 83 remittance flows, 367, 368t, 379, 380t