Remittances and the prevalence of working poor

Jean-Louis Combes, Christian Hubert Ebeke (), Mathilde Maurel and Thierry Yogo ()

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing countries and to the number of workers being paid less than 2 dollars per day as well. Even after factoring in the endogeneity of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in receiving economies. This effect is stronger in a contex of high macroeconomic volatility but is mitigated by the unpredictability of remittances: remittances are more effective to decreasing the share of working poor when they are easily predictable. Moreover, domestic finance and remittances appear as substitutes: remittances are less efficient in reducing the prevalence of working poor whenever finance is available

Keywords: Working poor; remittances; shocks; financial development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F43 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2011-04
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Working Paper: Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor (2011)
Working Paper: Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor (2011)
Working Paper: Remittances and the prevalence of working poor (2011)
Working Paper: Remittances and the prevalence of working poor (2011)
Working Paper: Remittances and the Prevalence of Working Poor (2011)
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