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This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate … provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in MENA countries and detect the main channels which may interfere in … this process. Estimation outcomes show that the most important part of remittances is consumed and that remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579802
This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate … provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in MENA countries and show the main channels which may interfere in … this process. Estimation outcomes show that the most important part of remittances is consumed and that remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424668
This paper studies the remittances' effect on economic growth. Using panel data techniques, the authors estimate … provide new robust evidence on how remittances are used in MENA countries and show the main channels which may interfere in … this process. Estimation outcomes show that the most important part of remittances is consumed and that remittances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110549
unresolved issue, namely whether remittances increase or decrease with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … in the few existing studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216734
migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325300
immigrant networks. -- immigrant networks ; remittances ; Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244036
This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants' remittance behavior. In this study, networks are defined as groups of immigrants from the same country that live in the same locality. Using the National Immigrant Survey, a unique database for Spain, immigrants are found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126135
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly … understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial … jobs on migrant households. A purpose-built survey allows nonexperimental tests of different theoretical mechanisms for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672252
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly … understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial … jobs on migrant households. A purpose-built survey allows nonexperimental tests of different theoretical mechanisms for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096767
ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly … understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial … jobs on migrant households. A purpose-built survey allows nonexperimental tests of different theoretical mechanisms for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081686