Guest workers' remittances and output fluctuations in host and home countries: The case of remittances from Turkish workers in Germany

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 68-81

  Sayan, Serdar ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Germany; Turkey; Workers' remittances

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844278934     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1540496x.2004.11052590     Document Type: Review

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