This paper intends to contribute to the literature on the effects of internal and
international remittances on schooling and child labour. . Using the information
gathered in the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS),
we examine separately the incidence of child labour and school attendance rates
in remittance recipient households, as compared to households where this
income source is absent. We apply OLS regression for the two cross-sections and
a fixed-effects linear regression for the panel analysis, using the average
characteristics of children in each household. Our results indicate that a child
belonging to a remittance recipient household has a lower probability of working
and a greater probability of going to school. Although international remittances
are found to have a stronger beneficial impact than domestic ones in the crosssectional
analysis, the panel analysis reverses this result, showing that the only
significant impact stems from domestic remittances.