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Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
This paper uses a large, nationally-representative household data set from
Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from
Guatemala) and international remittances (from USA) affects the marginal
spending ...
The effect of agricultural subsidies on migration and agricultural employment
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
Procampo was launched in 1994 to help the transition from low productivity
activities to high productivity activities, among other policy objectives. We
investigate the effects of Procampo on migration flows from Mexico ...
Remittances, consumption and investment in Ghana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
This paper uses a new, 2005/06 nationally-representative household survey from Ghana to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African or other countries) affects ...
The effect of remittances and migration on human capital: evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
In this paper I disentangle the effects of migration and remittances on human capital using a large data base which includes information on both the reception of remittances and the existence of migrants in the household. ...
International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2008)
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration ...