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 …

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 …

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 …

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … apply a two-step method akin to two stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and potential …

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. …

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … apply a two-step method akin to two stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and potential …

This paper examines two important channels which influence the dynamic absorption of remittances at the macroeconomic … level: (i) the presence of borrowing constraints, and (ii) the distribution of remittances across recipient households …. Using an open economy DSGE model with heterogeneous households, we show that remittances accruing to hand …

how changes in aggregate demand due to additional income from household's remittances propagates through the network of … linkages on sectoral and total output following an increase in remittances inflows. Our empirical results suggest that the … effects of remittances on recipient economies increase with the degree of linkages across sectors, which is especially …

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of remittances on economic growth of least developed … remittances in SSA based on panel data which is mostly generalized. The study in each individual country has never been done …. Consequently, our work contribute to the existing literature in that, we examine remittances on least developed countries …

This paper investigated the mechanism that generates and transmits the indirect impact of remittances on economic …, investments, and subsequent remittances, cumulates and transmutes into economic growth. The theoretical framework set wages and … more a country receives remittances, the more altruistic they are, and the weakly they impact its economic growth. The …