How responsive are remittances to recipients' welfare? Evidence from Fiji

International Migration

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Jimenez, Eliana V ^a   Brown, Richard P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; WELFARE IMPACT;

FIJI;

EID: 84880331056     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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