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one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …
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Collective models have become the go-to framework for intra-household allocations. Available empirical collective models are built for fixed sets of household members and accommodate diversity in household structures with difficulty. Individual-level data on food consumption from Bangladesh...
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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The paper explores the impact of workers' remittances on the level of export diversification. The hypothesis is that … significant inflow of remittances causes overvaluation of real exchange rate, which in turn deteriorates diversity of export. The …-2016 period and System GMM methodology. The evidence suggests that indeed large inflow of remittances is associated with less …
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authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of international remittances received during the post electoral crisis in Côte d …
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remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory, commercial and investment …-2016. The results show that a greater number of immigrants in Spain boost foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances sent and … emigration from Spain with the FDI and remittances sent is confirmed. With the economic downturn, the FDI declines and the number …
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There are considerable studies regarding the contribution of international migrants' remittances to economic growth … while there is a lack of studies which investigate the effect of remittances on shadow economy. The authors explore … empirically the effect of remittances and its interaction effect with tax on shadow economy by using panel data covering the …
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This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …
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This paper assesses the accuracy of decomposing income risk into permanent and transitory components using income and consumption data. We develop a specific approximation to the optimal consumption growth rule and use Monte Carlo evidence to show that this approximation can provide a robust...
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