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  1. New evidence on the role of remittances on health care expenditures by Mexican households
    Author: Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on... more

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    Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care expenditures are less responsive to remittance income among lower-income households. Since the lower responsiveness may be partially due to participation of lower-income households in public programs like PROGRESA (now called Oportunidades), we also analyze the impact of remittances by health care coverage. As expected, we find that households with some kind of health care coverage – either through their jobs or via participation in PROGRESA – spend less of remittance income increments on health care than households lacking any health care coverage. Hence, remittances may help equalize health care expenditures across households with and without health care coverage. -- Remittances ; health care ; household expenditures ; Mexico

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/36035
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4617
    Subjects: Rücküberweisungen; Gesundheitsversorgung; Privater Konsum; Mexiko
    Scope: Online-Ressource (42 S.)
  2. Remittances and income smoothing
    Author: Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household... more

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    Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables surrounding income volatility are also considered and evaluated. -- remittances ; income smoothing

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/51820
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5568
    Subjects: Rücküberweisungen; Haushaltseinkommen; Volatilität; Schätzung; Mexiko
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 14 S., 119,36 KB), graph. Darst.
  3. Remittances and portfolio values
    an inquiry using Spanish immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
    Author: Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest... more

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    Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are likely to have developed both in their host and home communities. The responsiveness to portfolio variables persists whether immigrants are highly or less highly educated. However, there are differences in the individual portfolio variables to which immigrants from various regions of the world respond to, as we would expect given migrants' diverse backgrounds and motives for emigrating. Additionally, remitting patterns change over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely as the immediate needs of family left back home are addressed and immigrants settle down in their host communities. -- remittances ; portfolio motives ; Spain

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/62565
    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 6622
    Subjects: Rücküberweisungen; Haushaltseinkommen; Portfolio-Management; Migranten; Schätzung; Spanien; New Economics of Labor Migration; consumption smoothing
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 35 S., 216,34 KB)