Labour Migration as a Social Security Mechanism for Smallholder Households in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Cameroon

By Gertrud Buchenrieder Schrieder, B. Knerr. 2000

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Do Migrants Insure Those who Stay Behind? Evidence from the Kayes Area (Western Mali) (2002, methodology): “This method is followed by Brown (1997), de la Briere et al. (1997), Ravallion & Dearden (1988) and Schrieder & Knerr (2000) in studies of the Paci c Islands, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and Cameroon, respectively.”
Remittances as insurance: evidence from Mexican immigrants (2006, methodology): “An option for estimating migrants’ remittances while circumventing this identification problem is to use a Tobit model (Brown 1997; Ravallion and Dearden 1988; Schrieder and Knerr 2000 ).”
The Determinants of Remittances: A Review of the Literature (2007, methodology): “Probit is used to estimate determinants of remittee' s access to remittances Schrooten (2006) Model using firstdifferenced GMM estimator/ dynamic panel on lagged remittances as % of GDP (Macro paper) Schrooten (2005) Model using firstdifferenced GMM estimator/ dynamic panel on lagged remittances as ”
Remittance Receipt and Business Ownership in the Dominican Republic (2006, unknown): “To claim a portion of the family’s assets, migrants may have an incentive to remit (Lucas and Stark, 1985; and Schrieder and Knerr, 2000).”