Workers' Remittances: An Overlooked Channel of International Business Cycle Transmission?
26 Pages Posted: 7 Nov 2012
Date Written: October 2012
Abstract
This paper shows that remittance flows significantly increase the business cycle synchronization between remittance-recipient countries and the rest of the world. Using both aggregate and bilateral remittances data in a panel data setting, the study demonstrates that this effect is robust and causal. Moreover, the econometric analysis reveals that remittance flows are more effective in channeling economic downturns than upswings from the sending countries to remittance-receiving economies. The analysis suggests that measures of openness and spillovers could be enhanced by accounting for the role of the remittances channel.
Keywords: Workers remittances, Business cycles, Terms of trade, Capital inflows, Remittances, Business Cycle Synchronization, Trade, Spillovers., remittance, remittances, business cycle, business cycle synchronization, remittance flows, remittance inflows, business cycles, real gdp, migration, bilateral remittance, impact of remittances, effect of remittance, migrant, effect of remittances, impact of remittance, remittance channel, workers ? remittances, economic growth, bilateral remittances, remittance outflows, gdp growth, determinants of remittances, remittance data, growth rate, remittance sending, immigrant remittance, remittances data, role of remittance, variation in remittances, remittance se
JEL Classification: E32, F15, F24, F36, F41
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