Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arabs countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia, which we econometrically verify. This deprived several MENA labor exporters of large sums of foreign exchange, adding significant economic, social and political hardships on non-GCC MENA countries.

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Authors:	Naufal, George S. ; Genc, Ismail H.
Institutions:	Department of Economics, School of Business Management
Subject:	Migration \| Remittances \| Unit roots \| Structural break \| the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) \| Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Economics Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	13 pages
Classification:	F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; F22 - International Migration ; F24 - Remittances ; C22 - Time-Series Models
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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