This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural … substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision (through remittances from migrants) and, thus, exert a positive effect on … investment. However, it may well be the case that remittances are channelled towards increasing consumption and leisure goods …

This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …

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 … identification of two separate events that are often driven by similar factors. In order to delineate the effect of remittances from …

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 …

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 … impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …