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Remittances flow and financial development in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Mamta B. - In: Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 6, pp. 2600-2608
Workers' remittance is a major source of foreign exchange earnings and plays an important role in the economy of …
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How does bargaining power affect remittances?
Aísa, R.; Andaluz, J.; Larramona, G. - In: Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 1, pp. 47-54
This paper examines the factors affecting the amount of remittances by migrants to their home countries, in a context of a family bargaining model. Spanish data does not show the same clear relationship between remittances and migrant income that is captured in the theoretical literature and...
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Government expenditures and trade deficits in Turkey: Time domain and frequency domain analyses
Kayhan, Selim; Bayat, Tayfur; Yüzbaşı, Bahadir - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 153-158
The purpose of this study is to determine the causality between trade deficit and government expenditures in the Turkish economy. We employ bootstrap process-based Toda-Yamamoto causality and frequency domain analysis methods. Results obtained from both methods imply that there is a...
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An economic analysis of remittance of unskilled migration on skilled–unskilled wage inequality in labor host region
Li, Xiaochun; Zhou, Yu - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 428-432
investigate the impact exerted by an increase in the remittance rate of the unskilled migrants on the skilled–unskilled wage … inequality in the labor host region. We find that the unskilled migrants increase their remittance rate to the labor outsourcing …
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Medical tourism and health worker migration in developing countries
Beladi, Hamid; Chao, Chi-Chur; Ee, Mong Shan; Hollas, Daniel - In: Economic Modelling 46 (2015) C, pp. 391-396
In developing countries of tourist destinations, an increase in medical tourism raises the wages in the medical tourism sector, thereby retaining skilled medical workers who otherwise leave the country. However, the expansion of medical tourism contracts the domestic healthcare services sector,...
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Globalization and income inequality: A panel data econometric approach for the EU27 countries
Asteriou, Dimitrios; Dimelis, Sophia; Moudatsou, Argiro - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 592-599
This paper investigates the relationship between income inequality and globalization, measured with both trade and financial variables. We estimate an econometric model using appropriate panel data techniques for the EU-27 countries over the period 1995–2009. The analysis is also performed at...
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Are distance effects really a puzzle?
Lin, Faqin - In: Economic Modelling 31 (2013) C, pp. 684-689
Given the distance proxies for trade costs, the onset of globalization implies that geographical distance would matter less for trade. However, year-on-year regressions of a log-linearized gravity model estimated by the ordinary least squares (OLS) method usually suggest that the negative impact...
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An optimal production method for penetrating foreign markets: Standardization, localization, and flexible technology
Kwon, Chul-Woo - In: Economic Modelling 33 (2013) C, pp. 398-406
This paper examines firms' production strategies for supplying products tailored to the target country's local taste: developing a new localized variety and modifying an existing variety to fit the local taste. Adopting the concept of the flexible technology in industrial organization theory,...
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External income shocks and Turkish exports: A sectoral analysis
Berument, M. Hakan; Dincer, N. Nergiz; Mustafaoglu, Zafer - In: Economic Modelling 37 (2014) C, pp. 476-484
This study assesses how the growth rates of Turkish trading partners affected Turkish exports in various sectors for the period 1996:01 to 2009:12. To determine this, we modeled the destination countries and the export demand for each sector separately. Each model is estimated as a system of...
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Estimating the import demand function for China
Wang, Yi-Hsien; Lee, Jun-De - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 6, pp. 2591-2596
This paper estimates the import demand elasticity for China using three fully efficient cointegrating regressions and … an investigation of the information transmission mechanism between the relationship import demand and its determinants in … anti-dumping duty on some import items. Since the perception of global risk adversely affects China's aggregated imports …
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