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Garbage In, Gospel Out? Controlling for the Underreporting of Remittances

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-lev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melkonyan, Tigran
Other Authors: Grigorian, David, Shonkwiler, J. Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2008
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
International Finance
Migration
Income
Labour
International Migration
Migration, Immigration & Emigration
Balance Of Payments
Emigration And Immigration
Exports And Imports
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
International Economics
Demand And Supply Of Labor: General
National Accounts
Labor
Population And Demographics
Labor Supply
Labor Economics: General
Labor Force Participation
Labor Market
Macroeconomics
Remittances
Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
Income Economics
Labor Economics
Armenia, Republic Of
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to household-level data from Armenia. We find evidence of systematic under-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work
Physical Description:19 pages
ISBN:9781451870886

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