Migration, Trade and Remittances: Low- and High-Skilled Workers

Martin, Philip

doi:10.33182/rr.v1i1.442

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“…In addition, seeing their peers succeed in their lives abroad, many people feel encouraged to do the same even if they do not have the means to afford the aforementioned lifestyle. It is due to this reason, the practice of illegal migration is so common among developing nations like Central Asia which further contributes to the misinformation that prevails regarding the actual number of migrants living abroad and the remittances they send back home (Martin, 2016). The extent of such misleading caused by informal mediums of sending remittances has been further stressed by Abduvaliev and Bustillo (2020) who claim that more than half of total remittances received by home countries usually do not make it to the official reports.…”

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Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Remittances upon Poverty: A Case of Uzbekistan from Central Asia.

Kayani

2022

IJEFI

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Remittances have always played a central role in strengthening the economies of low-income and middle-income developing countries. The remittances have also provided a phenomenal support to the economy of Uzbekistan, which is the third leading recipient country of foreign remittances in the Central Asian region after Kyrgzstan and Tajikistan. There is a strong need to investigate the impact of foreign remittances upon poverty reduction in case of Uzbekistan. This study has empirically investigated the impact of remittances on poverty in Uzbekistan by taking the variables like remittances, poverty size, capital formation, per capita GDP, savings and unemployment for the period of 2008-2019. Ordinary Least Square Regression was applied, and the results show an insignificant relationship between foreign remittances and poverty reduction. The reason could be that remittances in Uzbekistan are not pro-poor as mostly the workers from the rich families migrate to Russia. Furthermore most of the migrant workers prefer to settle down in Russia along with their families.

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Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Remittances upon Poverty: A Case of Uzbekistan from Central Asia.

Kayani

2022

IJEFI

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“…One is presented with different aspects of life, including but not limited to the physical, economic, social, psychological, emotional, mental or some combination of different aspects of life. Scholars have tended to draw insights from the housing circumstance of migrants (Kuuire et al 2016;Owusu 1998), the nature and conditions of their employment (Obeng-Odoom 2010), their consumption and investment patterns (Kuuire et al 2016;Martin 2016) and sometimes, their involvement in communal or collegial activities in their host countries (Andoh, Berrones-Fleming, and Dornberger 2019).…”

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Flipping the page: exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants’ remittances and their living conditions in the UK

Ehwi

Maslova

Asante

2021

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Migrants' remittance to close relatives and acquaintances back home has been widely studied. However, little is known about the impact remittances have on the living conditions of migrants who send these remittances. This paper hypothesises that migrants often deprive themselves of better living conditions in their host countries in order to regularly remit home. We test this hypothesis using survey data from 129 Ghanaian migrants living in the United Kingdom. We develop a Living Condition Index based on migrant participants' self-assessment of how remittance has impacted their living conditions in the UK and specify a hierarchical multiple regression model to test this hypothesis. Controlling for migrants' demographic, migration, employment, and remittance information, we find that there is a 19.8% decrease in migrants' living conditions when they remit more than £150 per month, thereby confirming our hypothesis that remittances adversely impact migrants' living conditions in their host countries. The paper reflects on the implications of the findings in light of migrants' living conditions under the current global health pandemic and offers practical suggestions that could help lessen this financial burden on migrants while supporting sustainable businesses back home.

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“…A remittance is money earned by citizens abroad that are sent back to their country of origin (Martin, 2016). It plays a key role in social resilience and the advancement of household welfare in many developing countries (Quartey and Blankson, 2004; Sikder and Higgins, 2017).…”

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Remittances, institutions and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mohammed

2021

JED

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between remittances, institutions and human development (HD) in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using data from 2004 to 2018. The study attempts to answer two critical questions: Do the increasing remittances inflow to the region have any effect on human capital development? and does the effect of remittances on human development vary depending on the level of institutional quality?Design/methodology/approachThe analysis uses a dynamic model; system Generalized Method of Moments (Sys-GMM) as this approach controls for the endogeneity of the lagged dependent variable; thus, when there is a correlation between the explanatory variable and the error term, which is normally associated with remittances, it also controls for omitted variable bias, unobserved panel heterogeneity and measurement errors in the estimation.FindingsThe findings indicate a positive and significant impact of remittances on HD in SSA. The results further reveal a substitutional relationship between institutions and remittances in stimulating HD. The estimations mean that remittances promote HD in countries with a weak institutional environment. The findings also establish that the marginal significance of remittances as a source of capital for HD falls in countries with well-developed institutions.Originality/valueMost empirical research on the impact of remittances on HD does not tackle the problem of endogeneity associated with remittances. This study, however, provides empirical evidence by using Sys-GMM that solves the problem. The current study also is the first work to examine the relationship between remittances, institutions and HD in SSA and provides a new guide for future research on the remittance and HD nexus.

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Migration, Trade and Remittances: Low- and High-Skilled Workers

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Remittances upon Poverty: A Case of Uzbekistan from Central Asia.

Analyzing the Impact of Foreign Remittances upon Poverty: A Case of Uzbekistan from Central Asia.

Flipping the page: exploring the connection between Ghanaian migrants’ remittances and their living conditions in the UK

Remittances, institutions and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa

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