Macroeconomic Determinants of Migrants’ Remittances: Evidence from a Panel of Developing Countries

Safaa Tabit and Charaf Eddine Moussir

International Journal of Business and Social Research, 2016, vol. 6, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: This work aims to assess the various macroeconomic determinants of migrants’ remittances for a panel of 22 developing countries highly dependent observed over the period 1990 to 2014. The results underline the importance of the origin country’s GDP, the host country’s GDP, inflation, financial development and institutional quality as major determinants of personal remittances. However, the migrant stock, the official exchange rate and the real interest rate in the country of origin do not have a significant influence on remittances received by the panel considered.

Keywords: Developing countries; international migration; panel data; remittances. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F22 F24 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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