Migration, remittances, and male and female employment patterns

By Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes, Susan Pozo. 2006

409 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. E. Glinskaya
2. Michael Lokshin
3. R. H. Adams
4. Francisca M. Antman
5. M. Ravallion
6. Katharina Wrohlich

In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. H. Adams
2. Francisca M. Antman
3. Michael Lokshin
4. E. Glinskaya
5. C. Ebeke
6. Maurice Schiff
7. M. Ravallion
8. A. Fosu

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances On Developing Countries Using Household Surveys: A Literature Review (2011, methodology): “In an effort to use what seems like a more exogenous instrumental variable than that used by Acosta (2007), Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo (2006a) use the number of Western Union offices in a (Mexican) state to instrument for the receipt of remittances.”
• Emigration and Its Economic Impact on Eastern Europe (2016, background): “Outflow of skilled labor can result in a brain drain, thereby affecting productivity (Bhagwati 1976, Burns, and Mohapatra 2008) and remittances may reduce the supply of labor by raising reservation wages (Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo 2006).”
• Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China (2009, neutral): “Studies for Albania (Mendola and Carletto 2009), the Philippines (Rodriguez and Tionson 2001), Mexico (Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo 2006) and Nepal (Lokshin and Glinskaya 2008) have found the net effect to be a decline in labor force participation as well as in hours of paid work by female members of…”
• The Effect of Male Migration on Employment Patterns of Women in Nepal (2009, background): “Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo (2006) and Hanson (2007) investigate how migration and migrant remittances affect the employment status and hours of work of others in the sending households in Mexico.”
• The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind (2012, background): “Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo (2006) find that remittances are accompanied by a drop in women’s labor supply in informal and nonpaid work in rural areas of Mexico.”
• Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador (2009, neutral): “remittances (following Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo, 2006 ).”
• Remittance Receipt and Business Ownership in the Dominican Republic (2006, neutral): “On the other hand, remittances may be used for other purposes – such as buying a home, acquiring human capital, or purchasing leisure (e.g. Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo, 2006b; Funkhauser, 1992; and Rodriguez and Tiongson, 2001).”