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The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … and poor countries on remittances and migration generates some highly non-linear results in the baseline simulation. Then … we analyze the counterfactuals "remittances send only 50%" or "no net migration". The results for the direct effects are …
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indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public …The credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to a simple …
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We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of … methods. Remittances increase the savings ratio in both samples. Savings have an (inverted) u-shaped impact on the tax ratio … richer sample, governments raise less tax revenues but spend more on education in direct response to remittances. Governments …
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indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public …The credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to a simple …
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The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …
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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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, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is … 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively …
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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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the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with … economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282554