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What determines the choice of transfer channel for remittances? Evidence from Moldova
Siegel, Melissa; Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
or personal transfers) by 1139 pairs of migrants and recipients of remittances in Moldova in 2006. Explanatory variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992846
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The Matching Approach on Expenditure Patterns of Migrant Households: Evidence from Moldova
Poppe, Robert - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown that temporary migrant households have additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700492
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Can Oil-led Growth and Structural Change Go Hand in Hand in Ghana? A Multi-sector Intertemporal General Equilibrium Assessment
Breisinger, Clemens; Diao, Xinshen; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886853
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The impact of financial openness on the size of utility-enhancing government
Erauskin, Iñaki - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
as the consumption-wealth ratio, the growth rate of wealth, and welfare, in a two-country world, based on a portfolio … sharing. The theoretical results for the growth rate depend on differences on productivities and consumption-wealth ratios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983184
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Intra-Family Migration Decisions and Elderly Left Behind
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886997
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Come Back or Stay? Spend Here or There? Temporary versus Permanent Migration and Remittance Patterns in the Republic of Moldova
Pinger, Pia R. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
remittances patterns. Using a new detailed household dataset on migration in the Republic of Moldova, it is shown that return is … respective migrant networks. Concerning remittances, the results indicate that temporary migrants remit around 30% more than … temporary migration is relatively more favorable for developing countries as it fosters higher remittances, repatriation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700495
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Do transfer costs matter for foreign remittances? A gravity model approach
Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185914
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Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education
Görlich, Dennis; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755127
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Worker Remittances and Capital Flows
Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Manchec, Marie-Helene Le - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker remittances have received less attention in this context. This paper … provides an analysis on the magnitude of remittances, their volatility, and their relationship to other capital flows. Moreover …, we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of remittances and private capital flows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755227
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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus: a cautionary note
Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The present contribution tests whether countries can be pooled when studying the financegrowth nexus. Overall, our results point toward a ‘pragmatic’ positive answer, though considerable heterogeneity is present among developing countries.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755203