Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances and Compensation of Employees in Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Deodat E. Adenutsi, 2014. "macroeconomic determinants of workers’ remittances and compensation of employees in sub-saharan Africa," Journal of Developing Areas, Tennessee State University, College of Business, vol. 48(1), pages 337-360, January-M.
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Keywords
Workers’ Remittances; Compensation of Employees; Money; Migrant; International Migration; sub-Saharan Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
- F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2014-12-24 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MIG-2014-12-24 (Economics of Human Migration)
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