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Remittances and the prevalence of working poor

Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - HAL - 2011

This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …

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Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor

Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian; Maurel, Mathilde; … - HAL - 2011

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Remittances and Household Consumption Instability in Developing Countries

Combes, Jean-Louis; Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011

This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on household consumption instability in developing countries on a large … panel of developing countries. The four main results are the following: Firstly, remittances significantly reduce household … consumption instability. Secondly, the insurance role played by remittances is highlighted: remittances dampen the effect of …

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The power of Remittances on the Prevalence of Child Labor

Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011

This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large … sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects … account the endogeneity of remittances, migration and financial development, we show that remittances reduce significantly the …

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Finance-Growth Nexus and Dual Banking System: Relative Importance of Islamic Banks

Abedifar, Pejman; Hasan, Iftekhar; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between the coexistence of Islamic banks alongside their conventional counterparts and the quantitative and qualitative development of commercial banking and economic welfare. We study 22 Muslim countries with a dual banking system during the 1999-2009...

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Financial development and survival of African agri-food exports

Jaud, Mélise; Kukenova, Madina - HAL - 2011

This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. Our hypothesis is that financial developement differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. We propose a test for the role of...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Credit and recessions

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Roland, Isabelle - HAL - 2010

The paper develops a simple model on the asymmetric role of credit markets in output fluctuations. When credit markets are underdeveloped and enterprise activity is financed by trade credit, shocks may induce a break-up of credit and production chains, leading to sudden and sharp contractions....

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The relationship between trade credit, bank credit and financial structure : from firm-level non-linearities to financial development heterogeneity. A study on MENA firm-level data

Couppey-Soubeyran, Jézabel; Héricourt, Jérôme - HAL - 2011

Using a database of more than 1,100 firms in the MENA region, this article looks at the determinants of demand for trade credit, particularly access to bank credit, size, age and the quality of the firm's financial structure. We show that the difficulty of gaining acces to bank credit positively...

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Financial development, entrepreneurship and job satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2008

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and the employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non- monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738704