Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal∗

Randazzo, Teresa; Piracha, Matloob

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2018.10.007

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“…The third perception is that remittances are fungible and that they are treated the same way as income from traditional sources. This perception is supported by the following studies; Randazzo and Piracha (), Castaldo and Reilly (), and Zarate‐Hoyos (). The discussion of perception of remittances so far explains the linkage between remittances and recipient's income and wellbeing but has nothing to say about recipient's income standing relative to others in the society.…”

Section: Why Remittances Might Impact On Poverty and Inequalitysupporting

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Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case

Agwu

Yuni

Anochiwa

2017

International Migration

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Section: Why Remittances Might Impact On Poverty and Inequalitysupporting

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Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case

Agwu

Yuni

Anochiwa

2017

International Migration

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“…For example, several studies confirmed that these income flows support resource‐constrained households for the enrolment and maintenance of children in school and for improving the quality of their educational investment (Cox Edwards & Ureta, ; Salas, ). These potential benefits may be counterbalanced by the direct costs of migration and the indirect costs in terms of reduced incentives to labor supply and rural productivity of members left behind, and skilled workers being lost (brain drain) (Acosta, Fajnzylber, & Lopez, ; Adams & Cuecuecha, ; De Haas & Rodríguez, ; Lokshin, Bontch‐Osmolovski, & Glinskaya, ; Randazzo & Piracha, ; Taylor & Lopez‐Feldman, ) . Moreover, evidence has been reported of some negative effects of migration on human capital investment as a result of parental absence (Grigorian & Melkonyan, ; Hanson & Woodruff, ; Hildebrandt & McKenzie, ; McKenzie & Rapoport, ).…”

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Remittances and healthcare expenditure: Human capital investment or responses to shocks? Evidence from Peru

Berloffa

Giunti

2019

Review Development Economics

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This paper estimates the effect of international remittances on healthcare expenditures, taking into account both the interdependence with other consumption goods and the effects of health shocks. More precisely, we assess whether the budget allocation decisions of remittance‐receiving households reveal different preferences to invest in health capital, even when the simultaneous effect that health shocks may have on the demand of remittances and on other types of nondurable expenditures is accounted for. Using data from the “Peruvian National Survey of Households,” we find that remittances have a positive impact on healthcare budget shares, net of the remittance‐related income effect and independently of the occurrance of a health shock. They also have a positive impact on housing and a negative one on other expenditure items, that is, clothing, transport, and education. Hence, our results indicate a “pure” tendency of remittance‐receiving households to devote larger shares of their budget to health capital investment, rather than to other types of consumption goods.

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“…In fact, most of the remittances are spent for unproductive equity. Migrant workers prefer to spend the remittance for housing and land, debt repayment and saving as the altruism and ethnic ties play pivotal role in diaspora investment [15]. Unless social capital is quite solid, the diaspora investment seems to be another utopia policy, which may rely on social capital [16].…”

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Migration and Development: A case study of Indonesian migrant workers

Hastuti¹,

Megawati²,

Pratono³

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Proceedings of the Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2018)

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This article aims to investigate how poor people in developing countries gain benefit from globalization by examining the opportunity to work as migrant worker. To respond the research gap, this study adopts a case study approach with a fieldwork survey in East Java Indonesia. The result indicates that diaspora strategy is almost impossible for the poor if he or she notices a high possibility for the employer to cheat those who work in domestic jobs, like nanny, driver, or baby sitter. Unless protection from both house and home countries is available, the diaspora strategy is not a better option for the migrant-work applicant. The paper contributes to the scholarly interest in the diaspora strategy to interrogate the assumption underlying the Migration-as-Development (MAD) discourse.On the supply side, the labor market environment in destination countries is main determinant of migration, such as labor institutions bring impact on expected employment and wages in the labor market, thus influencing incentives for migrants to move in a particular country [8]. The need to promote diaspora strategy springs from the economic disparities between the home country and the envisaged 1st Social and Humaniora Research Symposium (SoRes 2018)

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Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal∗

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Cited by 49 publications

References 34 publications

Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case

Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Senegalese case

Remittances and healthcare expenditure: Human capital investment or responses to shocks? Evidence from Peru

Migration and Development: A case study of Indonesian migrant workers

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