| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20986 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20986 |
| Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data | |
| Thomas Joseph; Yaw Nyarko; Shing-Yi Wang | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-03-02 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks and a labor reform. Remittances move with all of these income changes. Remittances do not move with an individual's growth in earnings over time. The slope of the relationship between earnings and time in the UAE varies across individuals and is not easy to observe by families. Thus, a key characteristic that drives remittance behavior is the observability of income rather than other features of these fluctuations. The results are consistent with a private information model where remittances are viewed by the migrant worker as payments to their families in an income-sharing contract. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Country Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20986 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578661 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas Joseph,Yaw Nyarko,Shing-Yi Wang. Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data. 2015. |
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