Are remittances inducing laziness in households?: a reexamination of the evidence

Geoffrey Ducanes

Philippine Review of Economics, 2012, vol. 49, issue 2, 1-24

Abstract: This study reexamines the available evidence on the often-repeated claim that international migration of a household member and the resulting remittances typically lead to laziness in the receiving households. The study Þnds, after replicating previous studies and testing the claim using more recent data, that there is in fact weak or no evidence to support such claim.

Keywords: international migration; remittances; labor supply; replication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F24 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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