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Remittances and investment in education : evidence from Ghana

Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena; Asiedu, Elizabeth - In: The journal of international trade & economic development 24 (2015) 1/2, pp. 173-200

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The effect of emigration on household labor supply : evidence from Central Asia and South Caucasus

Paul, Saumik - 2018

Using a novel data set, we find that households with migrants experience a 26% drop in the labor force participation rate in four economies (Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan) from the Central Asia and South Caucasus region. It is twice as large for households with...

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Workers' remittances and economic growth in Palestine: evidence from a computable general equilibrium model

Eltalla, Hakeem A. - In: Journal of economic cooperation & development 40 (2019) 3, pp. 69-88

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Remittances and the informal economy

Chatterjee, Santanu; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - In: Journal of development economics 133 (2018), pp. 66-83

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Essays on international migration and informal markets in developing countries

Böhme, Marcus - 2013

: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

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Emigration, remittances and the education of children staying behind : evidence from Tajikistan

Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015

We study the relationship between migration and childrenś education in Tajikistan - one of the poorest and most … effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance …

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Remittance flows and US monetary policy

Machasio, Immaculate; Tillmann, Peter - In: Review of World Economics 159 (2022) 3, pp. 545-561

Remittance inflows are driven by macroeconomic conditions in the home and the host economies, respectively. In this paper, we study the effect of US monetary policy on remittance flows into economies in Latin American and the Caribbean. The role of Fed policy for remittances has not yet been...

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Migration, remittances and well-being in Kosovo

Arapi-Gjini, Arjoli - 2022

Millions of people worldwide choose migration as a livelihood strategy, with the households and communities staying … behind relying heavily on remittance infows. The question of whether migration is benefcial to the households and individuals … straightforward. This calls for a detailed examination of how migration afects the well-being of households and individuals staying …

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Remittances and Child Labor in Pakistan: A Tale of Complementarities

Bang, James; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023

, internal remittances increase the labor force participation of the youngest children in the 5-11 age group, with girls being …

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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...

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