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The remittance behaviour of African diaspora in Belgium
Bettin, Giulia - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 157-157
The Belgium International Remittance Senders Household Survey (IRSHS) is employed to investigate the factors influencing remittance behaviour of the African diaspora in Belgium. The rich information contained in the dataset makes it possible to include both senders' and recipients'...
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Globalization, Migration and Development: The Role of Mexican Migrant Remittances
Córdova, Ernesto López - Econometric Society - 2004
role of international migration has been under-emphasized. In an effort to contribute toward filling that gap, it presents … poverty. These results are confirmed when we look at migration propensity instead of remittance flows. The econometric … exercises control for the likely endogeneity between remittances and migration variables, on the one hand, and developmental …
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Beware of Emigrants Bearing Gifts : Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Presence of Remittances
Chami, Ralph - 2007
This paper uses a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the influence of countercyclical remittances on the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy and trace their effects on real and nominal variables in a business cycle setting. We show that remittances raise disposable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778516
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What Do Remittances Do? Analyzing the Private Remittance Transmission Mechanism in El Salvador
Saca, Nolvia N. - 2006
Family remittances are important for El Salvador's economy. This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on El Salvador's economy and the spillover effects on the other Central American countries. A vector autoregression (VAR) model is formulated, consisting of real and monetary variables. The...
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Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines
burgess, robert - 2006
International migration and large remittance flows have been prominent features of the Philippine economy for many … decades. This paper describes the evolving pattern of migration and remittance flows and analyzes some of the channels through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780798
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Remittances and the Informal Economy
Chatterjee, Santanu - 2017
Many developing countries are characterized by a large informal sector, and are also often heavily dependent on remittance inflows from abroad. We develop a general equilibrium framework to understand better the dynamic absorption of remittances in a two-sector small open economy, by...
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Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development?
Chami, Ralph; Fullenkamp, Connel; Jahjah, Samir - 2021
The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because...
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The determinants and the size of international migration in Central and Eastern Europe after 2004
Organiściak-Krzykowska, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 4, pp. 159-178
Migration is a very important socio‑economic issue in the contemporary world. One of the interesting and pertinent … research problems worth considering concerns the scale and nature of migration from countries which entered the European Union …). The right of free movement led to the emergence of the migration phenomenon within the territory of the European Union. A …
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The effect of remittances prior to an election
COMBES, Jean-Louis; MAUREL, Mathilde; EBEKE, Christian - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2013
This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances, elections, and government consumption as a percentage of GDP. We combine data from the National Elections across Democracy and Autocracy (NELDA) dataset compiled and discussed in Hyde and Marinov (2012) and the World Development...
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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Presence of Remittances
Gapen, Michael; Cosimano, Thomas; Chami, Ralph - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2006
Remittance flows are quickly surpassing private capital flows and official aid in magnitude and rate of growth, making them the single most important form of income flows into developing and emerging economies. This paper uses a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342957