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Record W4406757981 · doi:10.1080/10875549.2025.2455716

Remittances and Inequality in Jamaica

2025· article· en· W4406757981 on OpenAlexaff
Adian McFarlane, Leanora Brown, Anupam Das

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Poverty · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsMount Royal UniversityThe King's UniversityWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInequalitySocial inequalityDevelopment economicsPovertyGeographyEconomicsDemographic economicsEconomic growthMathematics

Abstract

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Remittance inflows (remittances) to Jamaica have shown steady growth after slumping during the 2007–2009 Great Recession. At the same time, inequality, measured as the share of pretax national income held by the top 1% of earners, has remained stubbornly high. We employ quadratic match-averaging and the bounds-testing approach to cointegration from 2010 to 2019 to elucidate the dynamics between inequality and remittances. There are two central findings. First, we find cointegration running from remittances per capita to inequality. Second, a 1% increase in remittances per capita is associated with a 0.278% reduction in income inequality in the long run. One policy implication of our finding is that policymakers could consider strengthening financial channels for remittance transfers; this can improve the accessibility and effectiveness of these inflows in reducing income inequality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.420
Threshold uncertainty score0.835

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.318 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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