This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and … Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the … Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S. are used. The results indicate that remittances respond more to changes in …

emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two … important ways. Taking a closer look at the crisis years since 1989, at least as important as the opening of exit options was … the Cuban state’s capacity to rein in uncontrolled emigration and to reassure its ‘gatekeeper role’. In addition, the …

investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier … effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with data from five Mediterranean countries. The analysis reveals a uniform … changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …

raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled …