This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using …, and the number of hours worked per week declines with the size of remittances received. The size of the impact varies … between urban and rural households. Remittances to urban households have a larger impact on moving children completely out of …

We examine the determinants of migrants' choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest … remittances sent back home to preserve households' assets in marginal dry areas. …

This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and …) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …

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 …

Does increasing a state's minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its Eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform … out-of-sample forecasts to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 … show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but the largest effects accrue to policy …