This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … world's largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP. Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region's GDP …

Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries …' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …

migration; (ii) higher skill levels of migrating workers have helped to boost remittances; (iii) other imporant determinants of …The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker …

have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and … how this relationship varies depending on the channel of transmission from remittances to aid. Buoyant remittances could … remittances may dampen donors' incentive to scale up aid. Concurrently, remittances could be positively associated with aid if …

The paper investigates the determinants and the macroeconomic role of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa, assembling the … most comprehensive dataset available so far on remittances in the region and incorporating data on the diaspora. It finds … that remittances are larger for countries with a larger diaspora or when the diaspora is located in wealthier countries …

potential motives behind workers' remittances. It shows that the level of workers' remittances depends on how great are their …. The model is applied to Morocco using co-integration techniques. The paper then discusses the stability of remittances in …

The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic implications of large-scale inward remittances for a small open economy. By … including remittances in several standard models, the paper concludes that the overall macroeconomic impact of remittances is … problems associated with remittances preclude crosscountry empirical investigation, the paper illustrates these findings with …