La crisis financiera y económica en Italia, y su impacto en las remesas enviadas al Ecuador

Abstract

The present work has as objective the analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, and the effects that the same one caused to the Ecuadorian emigrants who reside in the different countries where the crisis had greater impact, besides the consequences that the crisis caused to the economy Ecuadorian To this end, they have been analyzed: the different crises throughout history, the origin of the crisis in the United States, the expansion to the main European countries, in particular, an examination of the unfolding of the crisis in Italy and the consequences in the labor market in general and in particular to the emigrant population, taking into account that in this country there is a small but important percentage of Ecuadorians. The data obtained indicate that the crisis caused a decrease in the labor supply in general, the emigrants in particular were affected by the decrease in their income, which had an effect on sending less remittances to Ecuador, this influenced the Ecuadorian economy, given that remittances are an important item.