Remittances, Migration, and Poverty. A Study for Mexico and Central America

Nuñez, Roy; Osorio‐Caballero, María Isabel

doi:10.22201/fe.01851667p.2021.318.79360

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“…An estimated 10% increase in migration to the United States from Mexico reduces the poverty gap by 12.8%. For Mexico and Central America, migration significantly affects poverty reduction in the home countries (Nuñez & Osorio-Caballero, 2021). Taken as a whole, remittances paid to Central American countries averaged between 18% and 19% of the region’s gross domestic product in 2019 (Herrera-Ruiz & Martínez, 2021).…”

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Health inequities and social determinants of health in refugee and immigrant communities.

Rami

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Morrissey

et al. 2023

American Psychologist

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This article evaluates and elucidates the intersections across social and economic determinants of health and social structures that maintain current inequities and structural violence with a focus on the impact on imMigrants (immigrants and migrants), refugees, and those who remain invisible (e.g., people without immigration status who reside in the United States) from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. Psychology has a history of treating individuals and families without adequately considering how trauma is cyclically and generationally maintained by structural violence, inequitable resources, and access to services. The field has not fully developed collaboration within an interdisciplinary framework or learning from best practices through international/global partnerships. Psychology has also been inattentive to the impact of structural violence prominent in impoverished communities. This structural harm has taken the form of the criminalization of imMigrants and refugees through detention, incarceration, and asylum citizenship processes. Most recently, the simultaneous occurrence of multiple catastrophic events, such as COVID-19, political polarization and unrest, police violence, and acceleration of climate change, has created a hypercomplex emergency for marginalized and vulnerable groups. We advance a framework that psychologists can use to inform, guide, and integrate their work. The foundation of this framework is select United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to address health inequities.

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Section: Migration and The United Nations’ Sdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health inequities and social determinants of health in refugee and immigrant communities.

Rami

Searight

Morrissey

et al. 2023

American Psychologist

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“…price national index. We consider only the United States consumer price index because around 95% of remittances were sent from the US in 2020 (see Nuñez and Osorio-Caballero (2021)).…”

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Determinants of the remittances sent to Mexico 1980-2022: was there a structural change?

Jiménez-Gómez,

Flores Márquez

2023

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Objective: We identify a new long-term relationship between remittances, Mexico’s GDP, the United States Industrial Production Index, and the real exchange rate.Methodology: For a quarterly sample from 1980 to 2022, we identified a structural break on the 3rd quarter of 2002. We divided the initial sample into two subsamples in order to estimate the corresponding cointegration vectors.Results: The cointegration vector for the second subsample has two important changes as compared to that of the first subsample.Limitations and implications: It is implied that remittances can actually generate a stabilizing effect on the foreign exchange market.Originality and value: i) the sign of the estimated coefficient of the real exchange rate changes from negative to positive, ii) a time trend must be incorporated in the cointegration space.Conclusions: We identify a long-term relationship among remittances and the variables that determine them after the structural break.

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A regional analysis of the impact of remittances on health expenditures: evidence from Mexico

Mora-Rivera,

García-Amador,

van Gameren

2024

Rev Econ Household

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Using a quasi-experimental technique and data from the 2020 National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, we not only provide evidence that both internal and international remittances have a positive impact on various categories of health expenditures in Mexican households, but also highlight regionally heterogeneous effects. International remittances have a larger impact at the household level, whereas internal remittances impact a greater number of households. In western Mexico, with its long-standing international migratory tradition, remittances from abroad have more pronounced impacts. Internal remittances are more relevant in the poorer south-southeast, a region known for having inadequate access to healthcare services. These findings are associated with structural socioeconomic disparities that characterize Mexico, and are also linked to whether the additional income is perceived permanent or transitory.

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Remittances, Migration, and Poverty. A Study for Mexico and Central America

Cited by 7 publications

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Health inequities and social determinants of health in refugee and immigrant communities.

Health inequities and social determinants of health in refugee and immigrant communities.

Determinants of the remittances sent to Mexico 1980-2022: was there a structural change?

A regional analysis of the impact of remittances on health expenditures: evidence from Mexico

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