Who remits and why? Evidence on internal migrant remittances from Vietnam and Thailand
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Keywords
Remittances; Altruism; Self-interest; Heckman model; Thailand; Vietnam;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2018-08-20 (Development)
- NEP-MIG-2018-08-20 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-SEA-2018-08-20 (South East Asia)
- NEP-TRA-2018-08-20 (Transition Economics)
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