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 …

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 …

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 …

inflow and economic growth of the Philippines. We find remittances to positively affect economic growth and therefore are …The link between remittances and economic growth is a controversial subject. While for some countries with relatively … high and perpetual remittances inflow, the impact on growth may be positive, but this is not the case for all the …

From 1994 to 2006, the average household saving rate in the Philippines declined by 5.2 percentage points to about a … patterns are best explained by the extended coverage of social security system during the 1990s in the Philippines. Less …

Remittances are the largest source of overseas capital inflows to the Philippines accounting for 11 percent of GDP and … more than 10 times the flow of FDI in 2011. Although the largest proportion of remittances are targeted for family support …, the Philippine government would like to see overseas workers allocate a larger share for investment purposes as a way to …

migration and remittances and to highlight research gaps. Literature and reliability of findings that explore the many facets … and implications of the social and economic impacts of international labour migration and remittances were assessed and … investment, and poverty and inequality, were highlighted. The paper argued that understanding the social and economic impact of …

among Filipinos overseas and depresses women's remittances by over fifty per cent. Clearly, the economic and social losses … associated with this kind of labour market outcome are significant. Remittances ; Immigrants …