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Remittances and Institutions: Are Remittances a Curse? [PDF]
World Development, 2008 This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers' remittances and institutional quality in the recipient country. Using a simple model, we show how an increase in remittance inflows can lead to deterioration of institutional quality - specifically, to an increase in the share of funds diverted by the ...
Jihad Dagher +3 more
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On altruism and remittances [PDF]
Research Papers in Economics, 2013 We provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances. From a sample of 105 male migrant workers from Kerala, India working in Qatar, we elicit the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game, and use it as a proxy for altruism.
Antoniades, Alexis +3 more
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Remittances and Democratization [PDF]
International Studies Quarterly, 2015 This chapter tackles the correlation between remittances and democratization. It explores how remittances could shape two types of political outcomes. The first outcome had been the remittance flows increasing the strength and mobilization capacity of opposition parties and civil society organizations, while the other political outcome involves the ...
Escriba-Folch, Abel +2 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Summary This article provides a short description of remitters in Dubai. The data comes from a remittance survey on foreign workers in the Emirate conducted in 2008. Among other findings, our results suggest that there are key differences between those remitters who live in labour camps and those living in “regular” accommodations.
Carlos Vargas-Silva +2 more
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Remittances and Financial Openness [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially through formal channels that turn to be either less expensive or less risky.
Michel Beine +3 more
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Remittances and Return Migration [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 AbstractThis paper utilizes survey data of return migrants to analyze the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three sending countries in the Maghreb, namely Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
William Collier +2 more
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Latin American Research Review, 2022 How does the presence of a large group of remittance recipients in the electorate affect the way political parties in Latin America plan their vote-buying operations during electoral campaigns? Existing research claims that remittances bolster the political autonomy of recipients, allowing them to escape clientelistic networks and making them less ...
González-Ocantos, Ezequiel +2 more
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Remittances and Income Smoothing [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2011 Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo
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The macroeconomics of remittances in the Philippines [PDF]
Ensayos sobre Política Económica, 2010 The literature on remittances has in the past concentrated on themicroeconomic aspects of the remittance process: the determinants ofremittances, impact of remittances on household allocation decisions, and theirimpact on poverty. Only recently has there been more attention on themacroeconomic impact of remittances.
Bayangos, V.B., Jansen, K.
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Remittance-scapes: The contested geographies of remittance management [PDF]
Progress in Human Geography, 2021 The management of remittances represents a multi-billion industry that is concerned with how these flows can be tapped into by a wide range of institutional, state and private sector actors. This article advances the concept of remittance-scapes to signal the extensive work that is implicated in constructing remittances as development finance across ...
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