Pablo Acosta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1633048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Acosta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Acosta |
| SIGNATURE | ACOSTA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3638-2368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Where and how is money spent on international migration and refugees in World Bank operational projects?
Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil
An unprecedented number of Venezuelans \n have left behind the worsening economic and social crisis at \n home to look for better future prospects. Brazil is hosting \n about 261,000 Venezuelans as migrants, asylum seekers, or \n refugees, which, at 18 percent, constitutes the largest \n share of Brazil’s 1.3 million refugees and migrants \n population (as of October 2020). Although previous \n literature on other host countries found that Venezu…
Intra-Household Labour Allocation, Migration, and Remittances in Rural El Salvador
Migration can affect labor participation decisions back home, either by stimulating work to replace foregone labor, or reducing it through the role of remittances. Using evidence from a rural panel for El Salvador with a comprehensive module on agricultural income shocks, this study finds that migration and remittances generate only minor labor reallocation effects within households. Contradicting previous evidence based on cross section data, no…
Intra-Household Labour Allocation, Migration, and Remittances in Rural El Salvador
Migration can affect labour participation decisions back home, either by stimulating work to replace foregone labour, or reducing it through the role of remittances. Using evidence from a rural panel for El Salvador with a comprehensive module on agricultural income shocks, this study finds that migration and remittances generate only minor labour reallocation effects within households. Contradicting previous evidence based on cross section data,…
Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America
Central America has come a long way both in terms of economic and political stability. Increasingly the region is focusing on implementing productivity-enhancing reforms as well as supporting reductions in poverty and inequality. This report analyzes recent trends in public social spending in Central America from 2007 to 2014, conducts international benchmarking, examines measures of the effectiveness and efficiency of social spending, and discus…
Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react by cutting labour benefits to achieve cost reductions. Alternatively, trade liberalisation may alter the industry composition of firms, changing the aggregate formality rates. This paper studies the relationship between trade liberalisation and informality in Argentina. Using manufacturing industry-level da…
School Attendance, Child Labour, and Remittances from International Migration in El Salvador
International migrant remittances can increase household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems, generating consumption and investment opportunities for recipient households. In particular, remittances can enable investing in children's human capital and reduce child labour, key outcomes from the perspective of growth in a developing country. Using data for El Salvador, this article shows: a) a null or insignificant overall impact of rem…
Female Migration and Child Occupation in Rural El Salvador
Remittances and Development
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing ev…
What Is The Impact Of International Remittances On Poverty And Inequality In Latin America
Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential end…
The Impact Of Remittances On Poverty And Human Capital
This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration-the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty le…
What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Capital Accumulation, Trade Liberalization, and Rising Wage Inequality
Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled workers, a positive correlation between investment in physical capital and the wage premium would be expected. In this article, we present evidence for this hypothesis by taking advantage of the variability in wage premia and capital …
What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Female Migration and Child Occupation in Rural El Salvador
Capital Accumulation, Trade Liberalization, and Rising Wage Inequality
Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled workers, a positive correlation between investment in physical capital and the wage premium would be expected. In this article, we present evidence for this hypothesis by taking advantage of the variability in wage premia and capital …
What Is The Impact Of International Remittances On Poverty And Inequality In Latin America
Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential end…
The Impact Of Remittances On Poverty And Human Capital
This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative household surveys and making an explicit attempt to account for one of the inherent costs associated with migration-the potential income that the migrant may have made at home. The main findings of the study are the following: (1) regardless of the counterfactual used remittances appear to lower poverty le…
What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Capital Accumulation, Trade Liberalization, and Rising Wage Inequality
Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled workers, a positive correlation between investment in physical capital and the wage premium would be expected. In this article, we present evidence for this hypothesis by taking advantage of the variability in wage premia and capital …
Remittances and Development
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing ev…
School Attendance, Child Labour, and Remittances from International Migration in El Salvador
International migrant remittances can increase household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems, generating consumption and investment opportunities for recipient households. In particular, remittances can enable investing in children's human capital and reduce child labour, key outcomes from the perspective of growth in a developing country. Using data for El Salvador, this article shows: a) a null or insignificant overall impact of rem…
Female Migration and Child Occupation in Rural El Salvador
Informal Jobs and Trade Liberalisation in Argentina
Rapid trade liberalisation can exert profound effects on labour markets. Domestic firms, to sustain competitiveness for survival, could react by cutting labour benefits to achieve cost reductions. Alternatively, trade liberalisation may alter the industry composition of firms, changing the aggregate formality rates. This paper studies the relationship between trade liberalisation and informality in Argentina. Using manufacturing industry-level da…
Toward More Efficient and Effective Public Social Spending in Central America
Central America has come a long way both in terms of economic and political stability. Increasingly the region is focusing on implementing productivity-enhancing reforms as well as supporting reductions in poverty and inequality. This report analyzes recent trends in public social spending in Central America from 2007 to 2014, conducts international benchmarking, examines measures of the effectiveness and efficiency of social spending, and discus…
Intra-Household Labour Allocation, Migration, and Remittances in Rural El Salvador
Migration can affect labor participation decisions back home, either by stimulating work to replace foregone labor, or reducing it through the role of remittances. Using evidence from a rural panel for El Salvador with a comprehensive module on agricultural income shocks, this study finds that migration and remittances generate only minor labor reallocation effects within households. Contradicting previous evidence based on cross section data, no…
Intra-Household Labour Allocation, Migration, and Remittances in Rural El Salvador
Migration can affect labour participation decisions back home, either by stimulating work to replace foregone labour, or reducing it through the role of remittances. Using evidence from a rural panel for El Salvador with a comprehensive module on agricultural income shocks, this study finds that migration and remittances generate only minor labour reallocation effects within households. Contradicting previous evidence based on cross section data,…
Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil
An unprecedented number of Venezuelans \n have left behind the worsening economic and social crisis at \n home to look for better future prospects. Brazil is hosting \n about 261,000 Venezuelans as migrants, asylum seekers, or \n refugees, which, at 18 percent, constitutes the largest \n share of Brazil’s 1.3 million refugees and migrants \n population (as of October 2020). Although previous \n literature on other host countries found that Venezu…
Where and how is money spent on international migration and refugees in World Bank operational projects?
Economics (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Developing country (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Poverty (5 works)