The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Jadotte, Evans; Ramos, Xavier

doi:10.1080/00220388.2016.1156089

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“…Economists have studied the effect of windfall income on labour supply (Imbens, Rubin, & Sacerdote, ; Henley, ; Kimball & Shapiro, ). Analogously, researchers have devoted great energy to determining whether remittances affect recipients’ labour supply (Kozel & Alderman, ; Görlich, Omar Mahmoud, & Trebesch, ; Shonkwiler, Grigorian, Melkonyan, & de Vrijer, ; Lokshin & Glinskaya, ; Cox‐Edwards & Rodríguez‐Oreggia, ; Jadotte, ; Binzel & Assaad, ; Antman, ; Powers & Wang, ). Sometimes the literature describes this pejoratively as “remittance dependence.”…”

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Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration

Clemens

Ogden²

2019

Development Policy Review

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Motivation It is time to reframe fundamentally the research agenda on migration, remittances, payments and development. Many policy‐makers in the developing world, and researchers, tend to view migrant remittances as windfall income, rather than as returns on investment, which is how families with migrants tend see remittances. Migration is thus, among other things, a strategy for financial management in poor households: location is an asset, migration an investment. Purpose We propose that this shift of perspective on remittances—from windfall to return on investment—leads to more fruitful research questions. Methods Reviewing the literature, we summarize the research questions that have dominated the literature on migration and remittances and why, owing largely to unhelpful perspectives, they lead us to less informative answers. Findings We suggest 12 new and alternative research questions that have received relatively little attention in the literature on migration and remittances, to spur new, more productive research. Policy Implications Migrant remittances are now several times larger than foreign aid. The effects of migration regulation and financial regulation on remittances have directly and significantly affect poverty and human security worldwide. But some of the most basic questions about remittances and their effects remain inadequately answered, in part because of a blinded research agenda. Asking better questions is a step toward better policies, programmes and regulations and, above all, to enable people on low incomes to improve their lives.

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Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration

Clemens

Ogden²

2019

Development Policy Review

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“…A negative link between hours worked and remittance transfer status is found in Amuedo‐Dorantes and Pozo () for men and Acosta () for women. Both females and males in Mexico and Haiti have demonstrated the negative transfer‐work phenomenon (Airola ; Jadotte ). Only Kim () finds no reduction in the weekly working hours of Jamaican remittance households.…”

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“…In several countries (El Salvador, Paraguay, Haiti, and Peru) urban females in remittance households work more. Acosta (), Hanson (), Kim (), and Jadotte () emphasize the negative remittances‐labor participation links. Cox‐Edwards and Rodriguez‐Oreggia () conclude that urban women in Mexico increased participation, which may have come from more opportunities due to new family ventures.…”

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Can International Transfers Be Problematic? Honduran Remittances and Labor Supply Decisions

Stanley

2014

Contemporary Economic Policy

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Declining work force participation rates are a potentially important public policy issue for governments in countries with large capital inflows. Here we consider remittances as both a household and individual characteristic to estimate the impact of this nonwage transfer on labor supply decisions in Honduras. Although an initial view suggests moderate reductions across the working‐age population, we find evidence of increased participation through a reallocation of labor time across work categories. Our inclusion of the individual nature of remittance reception suggests less emphasis on the unified household perspective is warranted. (JEL O15, O12, J29)

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“…(), Shonkwiler et al . (), Lokshin and Glinskaya (), Cox‐Edwards and Rodríguez‐Oreggia (), Jadotte (), Binzel and Assaad (), Powers and Wang (), Antman () and Clemens and Tiongson ().…”

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Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth?

Clemens

McKenzie

2018

The Economic Journal

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While measured remittances by migrant workers have recently soared, macroeconomic studies have difficulty detecting their effect on economic growth. We propose three new explanations for this puzzle. First, a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusoryarising from changes in measurement. Second, cross-country regressions may lack power to detect such growth effects. Third, remittances rise primarily with rising emigration, whose opportunity cost to GDP creates endogeneity bias. Migration and remittances clearly have first-order effects on poverty, migrant households' welfare and global GDP but detecting the effect of remittances on economic growth faces important challenges.

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The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration

Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration

Can International Transfers Be Problematic? Honduran Remittances and Labor Supply Decisions

Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth?

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