The impact of COVID‐19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries
- Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID‐19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo‐maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving countries mainly explain the fall in remittance flows, whereas the effect of economic support measures is not robust. Among the traditional explanatory factors, the business cycle and the real exchange rate in receiving countries explain the subsequent recovery of remittances.
| Author: | Adriana R. Cardozo SilvaORCiDGND, Luis R. Diaz PavezORCiD, Inmaculada Martínez‐ZarzosoORCiD, Felicitas Nowak‐LehmannORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-35715 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-3571 |
| DOI original: | https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3606 |
| ISSN: | 0954-1748 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of International Development |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Hannover |
| Release Date: | 2025/03/27 |
| Tag: | COVID-19; Latin America; PPML; lockdown; remittances |
| GND Keyword: | COVID-19GND; LateinamerikaGND; AusgangssperreGND; Pseudo-Maximum-Likelihood-SchätzungGND; Rücküberweisung <Internationaler Zahlungsverkehr>GND; PandemieGND |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Page Number: | 20 |
| First Page: | 803 |
| Last Page: | 822 |
| Institutes: | Fakultät IV - Wirtschaft und Informatik |
| DDC classes: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
