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Wider boundaries : the welfare state and international remittances
Amegashie, J. Atsu; Batu, Michael - 2015
welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300358
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How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Sherif Maher - 2016
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557898
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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165988
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Internal migration, remittances and economic development
Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023
households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334396
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712501
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Parents' desire to make equal inter vivos transfers
Halvorsen, Elin (contributor);  … - 2008
This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies to transfers of gifts inter vivos. We suggest that the equal division motive competes with traditional altruism: support to the child or the children with greatest needs. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790974
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The tragedy of annuitization
Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2010
We construct a tractable discrete-time overlapping generations model of a closed economy and use it to study government redistribution of accidental bequests and private annuities in general equilibrium. Individuals face longevity risk as there is a positive probability of passing away before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994548
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Mobility and the role of education as a commitment device
Thum, Claudio; Übelmesser, Silke - 2001
European integration forces system competition within European countries. This competition has important implications for both the public pay-as-you-go pension scheme and the public education system. Without labor mobility, each generation has an incentive to invest in the human capital of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398123
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Gerontocracy revisited : unilateral transfer to the young may benefit the middle-aged
Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
It has been argued that in the absence of altruism, intergenerational transfers can survive only if the old are net recipients. I prove that this need not hold in an over-lapping generations model with a fixed factor. For example, the middle-aged owning land may gain by providing public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398916
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He's a chip off the old block : the persistence of occupational choices across generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects related to parental advice and influence (nurture) from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199446