The paper looks at the impact of workers' remittances on the competitiveness of the receiving economy. It extends … existing research that concentrated on the exchange rate effects of remittances, the so-called Dutch disease effect, by adding … labour market effects. The results show that the labour market effects of emigration and remittances have a significant …

The paper looks at the impact of workers’ remittances on the competitiveness of the receiving economy. It extends … existing research that concentrated on the exchange rate effects of remittances, the so-called Dutch disease effect, by adding … labour market effects. The results show that the labour market effects of emigration and remittances have a significant …

The literature on remittances has in the past concentrated on the microeconomic aspects of the remittance process: the … determinants of remittances, impact of remittances on household allocation decisions, and their impact on poverty. Only recently … has there been more attention on the macroeconomic impact of remittances. It is to be expected that, when remittance …

The paper looks at the impact of workersÂ’ remittances on the competitiveness of the receiving economy. It extends … existing research that concentrated on the exchange rate effects of remittances, the so-called Dutch disease effect, by adding … labour market effects. The results show that the labour market effects of emigration and remittances have a significant …

The literature on remittances has in the past concentrated on the microeconomic aspects of the remittance process: the … determinants of remittances, impact of remittances on household allocation decisions, and their impact on poverty. Only recently … has there been more attention on the macroeconomic impact of remittances. It is to be expected that, when remittance …

This Selected Issues paper on Samoa reports that remittances are the main source of foreign exchange to the Samoan … economy. In addition to remittances, travel credits also play an important role in the economy. Official transfers are also … significant, and should remain an important source of balance-of-payments support over the medium term. Remittances are relatively …

interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

Despite the magnitude and in, some cases, the major role remittances do have in many economies all over the world, the … by the National Bank of Moldova that is considered the most relevant source to make an estimation of remittances’ volume …; the Household Budget Survey carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that presents data on remittances share …

This paper studies the long-run and short-run dynamics between emigrants’ nominal inbound remittances in U.S. dollar … changes of remittances in the long run as compared to the converse. Significant short-run interactive net positive feedback …