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Can Aggregate Data Shed Light on the Puerto Rican Circular Migration Thesis?

Santiago, Carlos E. - University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics - 1993

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The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940's

Bailey, Martha J.; Collins, William J. - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2004

The weekly wage gap between black and white female workers narrowed by 15 percentage points during the 1940s. We employ a semi-parametric technique to decompose changes in the distribution of wages. We find that changes in worker characteristics (such as education, occupation and industry, and...

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Cape Verde; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

The Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Cape Verde review determinants of emigrant deposits (ED). EDs have provided a substantial source of foreign exchange to the Cape Verdean economy, and have been vital in maintaining the fixed exchange rate. Prospects for growth in Cape Verde...

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What Do Remittances Do? Analyzing the Private Remittance Transmission Mechanism in El Salvador

Cáceres, Luis René; Saca, Nolvia Nery - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 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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Remittances and Institutions; Are Remittances a Curse?

Dagher, Jihad; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers' remittances and institutional quality in the recipient country. Using a simple model, we show how an increase in remittance inflows can lead to deterioration of institutional quality - specifically, to...

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Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development

Jahjah, Samir; Chami, Ralph; Fullenkamp, Connel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

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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Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets

Sutton, Bennett; Bayoumi, Tamim; Swiston, Andrew - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … flexible, particularly with regard to migration, while those further east are less so. …

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Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines

Burgess, Robert; Haksar, V. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

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 …

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Garbage in, Gospel Out? Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances

Melkonyan, Tigran A.; Grigorian, David A.; Shonkwiler, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to...

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Microeconomic Implications of Remittances in an Overlapping Generations Model with Altruism and Self-Interest

Melkonyan, Tigran A.; Grigorian, David A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

The paper explicitly models the dynamic strategic aspects of the interaction between the migrant and the remittance-receiving relative(s), with the migrant behaving as a Stackelberg leader. It is also different from other formalizations of remittance behavior in its treatment of the two parties'...

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