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 studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural … households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a … substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision (through remittances from migrants) and, thus, exert a positive effect on …

La littérature économique récente sur l'impact de la migration sur le pays d'origine n'a pas réussi à analyser l …'effet de la migration sur le chômage et le taux de salaire surtout dans les zones urbaines. A l'aide d'un MEGC détaillé …'émigration marocaine vers l'Union Européenne, l'immigration subsaharienne vers le Maroc et la migration rural-urbain, l'impact sur le taux …

migration data for five European countries over the 1980s and 1990s to perform quasi-structural estimations of a new economic …

Recently, much research interest is directed towards the impact of migration on the sending country. However, we think … that this literature does not successfully analyse the effects of migration on unemployment and wage rates especially in … urban areas. It studies the effect of one king of migration flow, mainly international migration, on labour market in the …

different way depending on the degree of return migration. With a low return probability, countries choose suboptimally …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …

'wages. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …