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reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological … distance to train lines and labor market conditions in the US as exogenous determinants of remittances. …
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We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment … model that accounts for both endogeneity and non-linearity issues, we find both positive and negative effects of remittances … are for rural females. For children in wealthier households, the effects of remittances are either negative or non …
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focusing on their implications on migrant remittances flows in Tunisia and Morocco. Indeed, we analyze in which countries …, where individuals depend on remittances and where this dependence intersects with economic vulnerability and inadequate … (PCA), the results show that the decline in remittances will exacerbate economic difficulties during the crisis for …
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The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …
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remittances in the Czech Republic. In contrast to previous studies, we provide a more detailed insight into the specifications of … having skilled position. Our results demonstrate that reverse economic effects of remittances on the source country might be …
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We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
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Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … Western Balkans as a whole (WB6). Using the method of instrumental variables (VI), the findings show that while remittances … labor market and encouraging uncontrolled individual relocation. This paper also reveals that although remittances have …
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This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope with negative income shocks. Rebelocracy is the social order established by non-state armed actors in the communities they control. By providing public goods and a predictable...
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We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax …-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find … that remittances have a large positive effect on VAT revenues but no effect on income-tax revenues. This suggests that …
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There are considerable studies regarding the contribution of international migrants' remittances to economic growth … while there is a lack of studies which investigate the effect of remittances on shadow economy. The authors explore … empirically the effect of remittances and its interaction effect with tax on shadow economy by using panel data covering the …
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