Are remittances inducing laziness in households? a reexamination of the evidence

This study reexamines the available evidence on the often-repeated claim that international migration of a household member and the resulting remittances typically lead to laziness in the receiving households. The study finds, after replicating previous studies and testing the claim using more recent...

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Published in:Philippine Review of Economics Vol. XLIX, no. 2 (Dec. 2012), 1-24
Main Author: Ducanes, Geoffrey M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
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