Remittances and Inequality: The Post-Communist Region
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/21:73610068
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Q8.Z~hnhCm" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Q8.Z~hnhCm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.776" target="_blank" >10.18267/j.pep.776</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Remittances and Inequality: The Post-Communist Region
Original language description
This study aims to investigate the impact of international remittances on income inequality in the post-communist region. The association between the variables is examined via static and dynamic panel models. Using macroeconomic data from 27 countries over the period 1991-2014, we discover that income inequality progresses along a U-shaped course as a country becomes more dependent on remittances. For most of the countries, the relationship between remittances and inequality is inverse. When remittances account for more than 20% of GDP, they exacerbate economic inequality. This finding challenges the view that remittances should only be viewed as a pro-poor redistribution mechanism because in certain cases, additional migrant transfers may actually increase income inequality.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Prague Economic Papers
ISSN
1210-0455
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
30
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
426-448
UT code for WoS article
000692131500003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85114484774