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The first remittance was $4,790, sent to Mr. Shehhi from the United Arab Emirates on June 29 , 2000
First, remittance flows to Mexico are not only the second source of revenue for the country after oil and the largest in Latin America and the Caribbean, but have also been shown to have significant multiplier effect on economic development and growth in that region (Taylor, Mora and Adams 2005Adams and Page 2005).
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Often the whole family takes a loan to finance migration, and first remittances are often used for repaying these loans.
First, remittances sent back from migrants likely change household income and allow families to spend resources on different categories of expenditure, such as education and child health care.
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First, remittances could increase non-migrants reservation wages, making it more difficult to accept any offer in the labor market as well as discouraging them to keep searching for a job when the search period is longer than expected.
First, remittances are used to pay debts and the fares of subsequent migrants, usually from the same household.
Second, remittance information should be made more easily and widely available to consumers.
Third, remittances present a yet to be capitalised area for development.
Second, remittances sent by these people to their relatives back home reduce the latter's dependence on the state and thus decrease their incentives to get involved with politics.
Second, remittances are likely to decrease V a r(c2) if, at the margin where the migrant is indifferent between staying and returning (i.e. for D w =D R ), the variance of wages in the origin country is lower than the variance of wages in the host country.
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