impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what … transmission channels through which remittances affect households and sectors. I give a particular attention to the investment of … remittances in the real estate sector, by allowing a segmentation of the savings market. To begin with, I assess the negative …

This paper fills the gap between individual selection models and collective approaches of migration. We build a … theoretical model in order to account for household-based migration decisions and derive its implications on migrant selection …. Assuming that the origin household maximizes a collective utility including earnings but also further remittances when choosing …

Migrants' remittances should b e considered as one of the determinants of migration ows, since they have an economic … remittances. We therefore use an epidemic mo del to formalize such mechanisms, and include these feedback e ects in the migrants …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

unpredictability and migrants' remittances on fiscal consolidation in these countries. Two definitions of fiscal adjustment are …-income countries, remittances increase the likelihood of fiscal consolidation, be the latter gradual or rapid. Surprisingly, we observe …

migration, we focus on children residing in non-migrant households. Third, we use a Propensity Score Matching method to …By reducing financial constraints and income variability, remittances can increase educational attainment and thereby … remittances on child labor and educational outcomes in Niger. More specifically, we investigate how recipient households in Niger …

This paper studies empirically the link between remittances and growth volatility by examining the impact of … remittances on the propagation of real and monetary shocks. This study is conducted by employing dynamic panel generalized method … inflation is used to proxy for real and monetary volatility, respectively. The results show that the impact of remittances on …

costs are not too low. Exogenous shocks, such as an increase in the foreign wage, lead to an increase in optimal remittances …. Hence, in equilibrium, optimal remittances and number of migrants are positively related. We use data from twenty fi … estimates put forward a positive elasticity of the number of migrants with respect to remittances per migrant. Policy …

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply …