globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … importance of the global factor. In other words, there is evidence of business cycle convergence within each of these two groups …

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 …

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions … remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 107 developing countries over the period 2005-2011. We find that remittances are … as natural disasters or large declines in the terms of trade. Remittances are positively correlated with economic …

world's largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP. Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region's GDP … official remittances to the Caribbean region. The results suggest that there is indeed some evidence for brain drain from the …