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Wider boundaries : the welfare state and international remittances

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Batu, Michael - 2015

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

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Return plans and migrants' behavior

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Machado, Joël; Wahba, Jackline - 2016

This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behavior in the host and origin countries addressing the potential endogeneity between return plans and...

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Interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, international trade and remittances

Mihi-Ramirez, Antonio; Sobierajc, Janusz; … - 2019

remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory, commercial and investment …-2016. The results show that a greater number of immigrants in Spain boost foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances sent and … emigration from Spain with the FDI and remittances sent is confirmed. With the economic downturn, the FDI declines and the number …

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Chapter 17 The Economics of Migrants' Remittances

Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006

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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Economic growth, financial development, and income inequality

Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2015

The central objective of our paper is to empirically examine the relationship between financial development and income inequality. Theoretically, there are grounds for both a positive and negative relationship between the two variables. Our main finding is that financial development contributes...

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Lobbying on entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - 2004

We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequalityand political accountability undermine entry and financial development. In-cumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potentialentrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...

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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'

Tausch, Arno - 2011

, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …

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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration

Di Giovanni, Julian - 2013

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011

, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human … ; environmental accounts and accounting ; environmental equity ; population growth ; international migration ; remittances …

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A global view of cross-border migration

Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - 2012

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … countries and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare …

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