Impact of remittances on the households expenditure structure in Vietnam

Since the Vietnamese economic reform called “Doi Moi” in 1986, Vietnam has witnessed a blooming in economy as well as the huge remittances flow from the internal and external migrants. Many researches choose the remittances behavior for their study. Learning from the way people send back their incom...

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Tác giả chính: Le Thi Nhu An
Đồng tác giả: Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Thuy
Định dạng: Master's Theses
Ngôn ngữ:English
Thông tin xuất bản: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City; VNP (Vietnam – The Netherlands Programme for M.A. in Development Economics) 2018
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Truy cập trực tuyến:http://vnp.edu.vn/vi/nghien-cuu/luan-van-tot-nghiep/tom-tat-luan-van/883-impact-of-remittances-on-the-households-expenditure-structure-in-vietnam.html
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spelling oai:localhost:UEH-582132018-12-11T09:13:51Z Impact of remittances on the households expenditure structure in Vietnam Le Thi Nhu An Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Thuy Remittances Households expenditure structure Vietnam Since the Vietnamese economic reform called “Doi Moi” in 1986, Vietnam has witnessed a blooming in economy as well as the huge remittances flow from the internal and external migrants. Many researches choose the remittances behavior for their study. Learning from the way people send back their income and the way people in the homeland use this source of financial support is not only support the valuable theory about remittances, but also bring out a practical experiment for one of the developing economy, Vietnam. Using the VHLSS 2012 data, this study explore the relationship between remittances and the six categories of household expenditure. These categories are food product, non-food (consider for the consumer goods), medical services, education payment, housing facilities payment, durable goods. The method using is Tobit regression for the education factor, and OLS for the other. Our results show that overall, remittances have statistically significantly impact for food, housing, durable and the medical expenditure. Meanwhile, consumption of remittance recipient households is not different from non-recipient households. 2018-11-30T07:11:48Z 2018-11-30T07:11:48Z 2016 Master's Theses http://vnp.edu.vn/vi/nghien-cuu/luan-van-tot-nghiep/tom-tat-luan-van/883-impact-of-remittances-on-the-households-expenditure-structure-in-vietnam.html http://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/58213 English reserved 43 p. University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City; VNP (Vietnam – The Netherlands Programme for M.A. in Development Economics)
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Impact of remittances on the households expenditure structure in Vietnam
description Since the Vietnamese economic reform called “Doi Moi” in 1986, Vietnam has witnessed a blooming in economy as well as the huge remittances flow from the internal and external migrants. Many researches choose the remittances behavior for their study. Learning from the way people send back their income and the way people in the homeland use this source of financial support is not only support the valuable theory about remittances, but also bring out a practical experiment for one of the developing economy, Vietnam. Using the VHLSS 2012 data, this study explore the relationship between remittances and the six categories of household expenditure. These categories are food product, non-food (consider for the consumer goods), medical services, education payment, housing facilities payment, durable goods. The method using is Tobit regression for the education factor, and OLS for the other. Our results show that overall, remittances have statistically significantly impact for food, housing, durable and the medical expenditure. Meanwhile, consumption of remittance recipient households is not different from non-recipient households.
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