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Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase …
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Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase … country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he … that other household members in the home country likely consume rather than invest remittances if they are highly …
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Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of...
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Using disaggregated sectorial data, this study shows that rising levels of remittances have spending effects that lead …
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, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …
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This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … countries and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare …
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, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human … ; environmental accounts and accounting ; environmental equity ; population growth ; international migration ; remittances …
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This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090780