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 …

The present paper examines the causal linkage between remittances, financial development, and economic growth in a … Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) panel data analysis, we find strong evidence of a positive relationship between remittances and … economic growth. We also find evidence that remittances appear to be working as a complement to financial development and …

wealth, whereas the majority working class, partly due to limited investment available from an underdeveloped financial …

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 …

direct investment (FDI), and foreign aid were found to be important moderators of the remittances-savings linkage. For the …This paper investigates the direct and the indirect roles of migrant transfers in the saving behaviors of the Latin … remittances to savings. On average, an increase in inward remittances by 1% leads to about 0.10% increase in savings ceteris …

direct investment (FDI), and foreign aid were found to be important moderators of the remittances-savings linkage. For the …This paper investigates the direct and the indirect roles of migrant transfers in the saving behaviors of the Latin … remittances to savings. On average, an increase in inward remittances by 1% leads to about 0.10% increase in savings ceteris …

financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …