Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia

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“…It is intuitive to examine whether this phenomenon of declining female labour force participation can be attributed, at least in part to the flow of remittances to rural areas. Besides, research also indicates that the impact of remittances on various indicators such as household welfare, children’s education, inequality etc can vary by source of remittances (Binci and Giannelli 2018; Cuong 2009; Kimhi 2010; Taylor et al 2005). Therefore, it is also instructive to examine if the labour market impact of international remittances is different from internal remittances and the probable causes of such differential impact, if any.…”

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Impact of Remittances on Labour Supply and Occupational Choice in Rural India

Dey

2021

International Journal of Rural Management

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This study examines the impact of remittances on the labour market decisions of left behind adult family members in rural households in India. Using both selectivity and endogeniety corrected models, the results find evidence of a dependency effect wherein individuals belonging to remittance receiving households are less inclined to participate in the labour market. These effects are much stronger in case of international remittances. Incidentally, the reduction in work participation was found to larger for males than females. While, on the one hand, domestic remittances were observed to increase the intensity of labour supplied by households, international remittances, on the other hand, were found to be lowering hours of work done by left behind family members. Further, domestic remittances increase the proportion of labour supplied to self-employment activities in agriculture; international remittances, on the contrary, were found to be pushing workers into non-agricultural activities. The differences in the impact of domestic and international remittances on labour market participation and work intensity can be attributed to the differences in absolute size of remittances available per capita from the two alternate sources while unobservable household characteristics and locational factors can explain the variations in intra-household labour allocation across activities.

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Impact of Remittances on Labour Supply and Occupational Choice in Rural India

Dey

2021

International Journal of Rural Management

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“…In addition, it does not have to be protected from heteroskedasticity (Yah, 2020). Previous researchers have widely used the logit model to determine the determinants of child labor (Afriyie et al 2019;Ali & Haszelinna, 2016;Binci & Giannelli, 2016;Chakrabarty, 2015;Cummings, 2016;(Oryoie et al 2017). The following equation shows our logistic regression model:…”

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Why are Children Still Working?

Sandra

Dawood

Majid

2022

JESP

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This study aims to determine the effect of household characteristics and children's living environment on child labor to reduce the likelihood of child labor occurrence. The data source of this research is Sakernas (Indonesian National Labor Force Survey) of August 2018, including school accreditation, household head gender, age, working sector, employment status, household size, dependency ratio, location, and school quality, towards the probability of child labor occurrence in Indonesia. Results suggest that the government must prioritize welfare programs for women household heads, asses the minimum age for marriage, improve education facilities, and increase parental awareness to eliminate child labor. The government needs to improve education infrastructure. This infrastructure improvement should be accompanied by the convenience of school access and its costs. The lack of education infrastructure, especialy in rural areas makes it difficult for children there to attend formal schooling.

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“…Given that the bulk of domestic remittances go unrecorded, it can be assumed that the level of domestic remittances is much higher than stated. The literature has established the benefits of remittances including increased investment in education, health, entrepreneurship, increased schooling and a reduction in child labour (Binci & Giannelli 2018;Ratha 2013;World Bank Group 2016).…”

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Financial inclusion: Basic theories and empirical evidence from African countries

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Ssonko²,

Kawooya³

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Peer Review DeclarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review prior to publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher and/ or authors in question. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. Where the reviewers recommended revision and/or improvements to the manuscript, the authors responded adequately to such recommendations. v Research JustificationFinancial inclusion has been noted as a key driver of poverty alleviation and growth. Yet most of the scholarly work that exists lacks a comprehensive discussion on how the poor interact with financial services and the channels through which such services can affect their livelihoods. This book addresses this gap in scholarship. This is important in creating a substantive understanding of how useful financial inclusion is as a concept and practice. The number of articles written on the determinants and effects of financial inclusion at a broad cross-country level is growing. Yet almost all of this literature assumes the impacts of financial inclusion without paying attention to how these effects are transmitted. An understanding of the transmission mechanisms is fundamental to effective application. Moreover, a rapidly developing discourse in financial inclusion literature is digital finance. Much has been written and is being written about the benefits of digital finance with hardly any discussion of the channels through which such benefits are transmitted. This book discusses the various transmission mechanisms through which not only traditional finance can affect the poor but also how digital finance is transmitted to poverty. Most significantly, the chapter on digital finance provides cross-country evidence for African countries.Moreover, the often-macro perspective in the financial inclusion literature implies that country-specific nuances that can provide critical learning points are often overlooked. This book provides six original empirical case studies of financial inclusion in six African countries. The case studies cover a broad area of topics most important to African countries and highlight the unique African setting. The role of cooperative financial institutions and social entrepreneurship presented in this volume, for example, is hardly researched in Africa and yet is an important vehicle to circumvent the restrictive and exclusive bank-based financial markets unique to Africa. The chapters employ various methodologies depending on the topic being addressed in the chapter. Most of these use quantitative methods. Five chapters are empirical in nature and use inferential statistics, whilst the other two use mixed methods with qualitative data as well as descriptive statistics. This scholarly book offers researchers who focus on f...

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Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Impact of Remittances on Labour Supply and Occupational Choice in Rural India

Impact of Remittances on Labour Supply and Occupational Choice in Rural India

Why are Children Still Working?

Financial inclusion: Basic theories and empirical evidence from African countries

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