The roles of gender and education in the intrahousehold allocation of remittances of Filipino migrant workers

The roles of gender and education in the intrahousehold allocation of remittances of Filipino migrant workers

This paper shows that the individual?s bargaining power within the household, proxied by the gender and the educational attainment of the household head, affects how remittances sent by Overseas Filipino Workers are spent in the Philippines. Generalized linear model estimation and post-estimation te...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Philippine Review of Business and Economics Vol. LIII, No. 1 (June 2016), p. [19]-55.
Main Author: Pajaron, Marjorie (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: 2016.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigrant remittances > Philippines.
Online Access:https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9