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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009514
This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...
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improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …
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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 …
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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 …
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between remitter and recipient. -- Migration ; remittances ; labor supply ; time allocation ; gender …
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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 …
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This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their … family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits … in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a given real volume of remittances back to the family in the sending …
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