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country into stagnation. We also find that immigrants' remittances are harmful to the host country under full employment but …
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This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …
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Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …
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Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the …. On the micro level remittances may constitute the major source of income and become a means towards consumption smoothing … (migration as survival strategy). Notwithstanding, the very nature of remittances and underlying factors are still under …
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In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...
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remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …
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Migrants' remittances to developing countries have increased in recent decades, partly due to reduced transactions … explanation. Despite the difficulties female migrants encounter in the labor market, their total remittances may be higher and …
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; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …
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This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
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to be a sustainable solution to unbalanced global economic developments. Remittances, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and …. Remittances offer no structural solution to reduction of poverty as these funds flow to a selective group of families and are …
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