Remittances from Migrants: Experience of Vietnamese Households

Hai La; Suiwah Dean-Leung

doi:10.1525/vs.2012.7.4.10

Remittances from Migrants: Experience of Vietnamese Households

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By analyzingdatafromthethreeVietnamHouseholdLivingStandards Surveysbetween 2002 and 2006, theauthorsfoundthataverylargeproportion of Vietnamesehouseholdsreceivedremittancesduringthoseyearsandthat theseremittancesconstitutedasignificantshareofhouseholdincomes.The majorityofhouseholdsreceivedremittancesfromwithinVietnam,butforthose abletoaccessremittancesfromabroad,theamountswereverymuchlarger. In general,remittancesdoseemtoplayan "insurancerole" forthepoor, cushioninganysuddenfallsinhouseholdincomes.Thereisalsosomeevidence thatpublictransferscancrowdoutprivateremittances,buttheeffectisby no meanscomplete.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10-31
Journal	Journal of Vietnamese Studies
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2012.7.4.10
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Remittances from Migrants: Experience of Vietnamese Households

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