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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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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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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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This study examines the role of migrants’ remittances in developing countries’ fertility transition. Employing an … remittances are significantly associated with lower number of children born to women of childbearing age. This suggests the … remittances’ substitution effect to be at play rather than the income effect, and may result from decreased need for children for …
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consider this correlation to be indicative of a causal link. First, we compare aid to remittances, an alternative form of …
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undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants’ remittances on … economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances …
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