Hassan, Gazi Mainul; Faria, Joao Ricardo - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013
This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances inflow and social violence by … developing a model which predicts that migrants’ remittances would lead to the reduction of social conflict in the recipient … economy under the condition that remittances increase the average product of labour. Using homicides data as an indicator of …