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The paper explores the impact of workers' remittances on the level of export diversification. The hypothesis is that … significant inflow of remittances causes overvaluation of real exchange rate, which in turn deteriorates diversity of export. The …–2016 period and System GMM methodology. The evidence suggests that indeed large inflow of remittances is associated with less …
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, and economic development and whether inward remittances may help to construct an inclusive financial system. Using both … endogeneity-robust generalized method of moments and a structural equation model, our results show that remittances and financial … remittances and improve financial inclusion status are of great importance and could pull middle-income countries out of middle …
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sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …
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Remittances, the part of the migrant's income sent back to their family living in the origin country, have become a … Sustainable Development Goals; it is also an important policy objective as it helps to bring remittances into the formal economy … and to what extent the reduction in the cost of remittances increases the flow of remittances to developing countries, and …
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Migrants’ remittances are an important financial flow to their country of origin. Remittances sent by migrants reduce … private consumption and their investments. This paper aims to analyse the impact of remittances on economic growth, private … countries collected for the period between 1989 and 2015. Using a panel data set , our results show that migrants’ remittances …
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their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …
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We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes.Remittances appear to have a … in size than those offoreign direct investment or offcial development aid. On the supply side, remittances reducelabor … significantly different sensitivities to remittances. On the demandside, remittances reduce overall unemployment but benefit mostly …
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Migrant remittances increased strongly since the 1980s, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … remittances and potential measurement errors. We find a strong positive statistical and economic effect of remittances on …
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I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … exports with Germany to total exports with Germany and remittances as a ratio of Turkish GDP. The results of this study show …
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unresolved issue, namely whether remittances increase or decrease with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … in the few existing studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
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