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Remittances and children's capabilities: New evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005 - 2008

Kroeger, Antje; Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2012

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of … Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from … 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain the household's standard of living by providing income to …

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Internal vs. international migration: Impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2012

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from … remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances … increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …

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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment: Evidence from rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Egyptian men working abroad: Labor supply responses by the women left behind

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - 2011

possible by the flow of remittances. …

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The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Jadotte, Evans; Ramos, Xavi - 2015

We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …

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Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work

Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2004

Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data...

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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2004

This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...

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And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band : Second Jobs, Plight or Pleasure?

Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2004

We describe the dynamics of second job holding in Britain during the 1990s using panel data from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results show that second job holding is surprisingly persistent over time – about 10% of workers have a second job at any point in time while two thirds of...

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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand

Hogerbrugge, Maurice; Euwals, Rob - 2004

Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well....

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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003

In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all Swiss universities for the period of 1981-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity...

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