The Determinants of International Remittances in Developing Countries

By R. H. Adams. 2009

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Summary What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to examine the determinants of remittances. The paper finds that the skill composition of migrants does matter in remittance determination. Countries which export a larger share of high-skilled (educated) migrants receive less per capita remittances than countries which export a larger proportion of low-skilled migrants. It also finds that the level of poverty in a labor-sending country does not have a positive impact on the level of remittances received.

Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, background): “4It is also the case that middle-income countries receive more remittances per capita than low-income countries (Adams 2009), and the countries with the most sizable amount of remittances are the most populous emerging economies namely India, China, Mexico, the Philippines and Nigeria (Yang 2011).”
• COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens (2020, unknown): “The remittance projection model used for 2020 is based on standard remittance estimation models in the  literature that posit remittances as a function of income in migrants’ countries of destination and origin  (Ratha and Shaw 2007, Carling 2008, El‐Sakka and McNabb 1999, Adams 2009).”
• Remittances and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka (2012, methodology): “While Niimi and Ozden (2006), Faini (2007) and Adams (2009) using cross-country data find that countries that have a larger proportion of high-skilled emigrants receive less remittances – perhaps because these emigrants are also more likely to settle in the host countries and reunite with their…”