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 …

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 …

issues to assess the impact of remittances on labour market outcomes. The results in terms of a decline of labour supply in … the presence of remittances are in line with those observed thus far in the literature. However, the impact of … international remittances does not seem to be important in determining the labour participation behaviour, particularly for women …

household's likelihood of receiving remittances. We also compute average treatment effects as well as the marginal impact of … receiving remittances on household welfare, across welfare quantiles. The novelty of our approach is to control for omitted … welfare level of a household per se does not trigger the receipt of remittances. The receipt of remittances favors non …

This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. We find … supply fewer hours when they do. The negative effect of remittances on labor supply is smaller for women, which is an … intriguing result as other studies on remittances and labor supply (primarily focused on Latin America) have shown that female …

improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

approfondissement.There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … that characterize Haitian society. Although expectations about macroeconomic impacts of remittances on beneficiaries …

receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the … effects of both phenomena that have mostly been jointly modeled in previous literature. The results suggest that remittances … high poverty rate in the country. -- Haiti ; education ; remittances ; migration …

between remitter and recipient. -- Migration ; remittances ; labor supply ; time allocation ; gender …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …