Sayan, Serdar; Tekin-Koru, Ayca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We investigate whether remittances sent to Turkey by Turkish workers living in Germany are countercyclical or … implications. We also take up a previously unexplored issue and discuss poverty alleviation potential of remittances at a … macroeconomic level by examining the statistical properties of any co-movements between remittances cycles and cycles in consumption …