We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with … relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions … as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for remittances to persons and to charities. We …

, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …

Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the …. On the micro level remittances may constitute the major source of income and become a means towards consumption smoothing … (migration as survival strategy). Notwithstanding, the very nature of remittances and underlying factors are still under …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely … as the immediate needs of family left back home are addressed and immigrants settle down in their host communities. …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of …