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The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … and poor countries on remittances and migration generates some highly non-linear results in the baseline simulation. Then … we analyze the counterfactuals "remittances send only 50%" or "no net migration". The results for the direct effects are …
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indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public …The credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to a simple …
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We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of … methods. Remittances increase the savings ratio in both samples. Savings have an (inverted) u-shaped impact on the tax ratio … richer sample, governments raise less tax revenues but spend more on education in direct response to remittances. Governments …
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indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public …The credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to a simple …
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The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …
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the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with … economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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controls on illegal migration, this may impact both migration durations and remittances. Tighter borders increase crossing …The migration of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. is one of the largest bilateral migration flows in the world and … remittances from these immigrants represent a crucial source of income for Mexican households. As the United States tightens …
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