Diaspora transferts et réduction du chômage

Jellal, Mohamed (2014): Diaspora transferts et réduction du chômage.

Abstract

We consider a simple overlapping generations model with exogenous fertility that analyzes the effects of the institutions of labor market and remittances on unemployment. In our model, the remittances take the form of insurance against involuntary unemployment. In this environment, it was shown that remittances sent by the diaspora provide consumption and savings and increase the amount of national physical capital. Since the rate of unemployment decreases with the size of the national investment, remittances tend to decrease the level of unemployment. However, we have shown that these remittances cannot be sufficient to restore full employment of the country.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Diaspora remittances and reduction of unemployment
• Language: French
• Keywords: Labor market institutions, Unemployment, Remittances,Informal sector,
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E26 - Informal Economy ; Underground Economy; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F22 - International Migration; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F24 - Remittances; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining > J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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