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The Effects of Remittances on Output per Worker in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Production Function Approach
This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if complemented with education. The indirect effects vary with the economic characteristics of the recipient nations: while remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly increased total factor productivity, but are still inversely related to factor inputs among the lower-middle-income nations of SSA. Finally, remittances are more effective when institutional risk is reducing.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: AGDI Working Paper ; No. WP/14/027
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Remittances
Foreign Aid
Economic Growth of Open Economies
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Economic Development: Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
Institutions and Growth
Economywide Country Studies: Africa
- Subject
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remittances
output per worker
total factor productivity
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ssozi, John
Asongu, Simplice A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
- (where)
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Yaoundé
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ssozi, John
- Asongu, Simplice A.
- African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)
Time of origin
- 2014
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