The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a …

-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … exports with Germany to total exports with Germany and remittances as a ratio of Turkish GDP. The results of this study show …

We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by … remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of … remittances from Germany are altruistically motivated. In addition, we find that the coefficient on the stock of Turkish migrants …

database (KIIbIH) show that a disproportionately large number of middle‑class informal economy workers receive remittances … schemes were made available to them, remittances could potentially be channelled to finance the extension of social insurance …

This paper investigates how sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries could harness remittances through formal channels for … ability of sub-Saharan African countries to harness remittances for development. Besides remitting home for altruistic reasons …

Remittances have become an effective source of balance of payment sustainability in several small countries in Latin … America, and thus a particular concern among developmental economists is the source driving remittances into this region. This … paper studies the properties and cyclical nature of remittances in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, two countries …