Macroeconomic determinants of workers' remittances: Host versus home country's economic conditions.

This study examines the determinants of worker's remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the macroeconomic conditions of the host (remittance sending...

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Main Authors: Vargas-Silva, C, Huang, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2006