migration; (ii) higher skill levels of migrating workers have helped to boost remittances; (iii) other imporant determinants of …The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker …

Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest sources of financial flows to … undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical … is both correlated with remittances and would only be expected to affect growth through its effect on remittances. The …

International migration and large remittance flows have been prominent features of the Philippine economy for many … decades. This paper describes the evolving pattern of migration and remittance flows and analyzes some of the channels through … which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

remittances as well as investment and hours worked by the relative(s). We use data from Armenia to test our predictions regarding … implications of remittances flows on behavior of receiving households. Consistent with our predictions, remittance … benefits of remittances might be overstated and emphasizes the importance of measuring their impact in a general- rather than a …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …

migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about … solution. But, when we incorporate "brain waste" and "return migration", then it is optimal to migrate when young. …

significant negative effect on output convergence?by discouraging migration within Canada?the Equalization transfers may have …

We develop a model of double matching in the labor market and the social environment in order to explain different … migration patterns in response to local economic shocks. This approach explains the different behaviors of workers in different …