Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ziesemer, Thomas
Author-Email: t.ziesemer@algec.unimaas.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Title: Worker remittances and government behaviour in the receiving countries.
Abstract: We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and 
	 public expenditures on education, all as a share of GDP, for about 
	 thirty years in two samples of countries with per capita income above 
	 and below $1200 using dynamic panel data methods. Governments of the 
	 poorer sample raise less taxes in the short run but more in the long run 
	 and spend more money on education when remittances come in; in the 
	 richer sample they raise less taxes and spend less on education in 
	 response to remittances but this is almost completely compensated by the 
	 positive response of expenditure on education to higher savings, which 
	 results from remittances as well.
Classification-JEL: F24, H20, H52
Keywords: Remittances, Tax Revenue, Government Expenditure, Education 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2008
Number: 029
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2008/wp2008-029.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2008029