of migration and remittances (that is, a .private safety net. built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

issues to assess the impact of remittances on labour market outcomes. The results in terms of a decline of labour supply in … the presence of remittances are in line with those observed thus far in the literature. However, the impact of … international remittances does not seem to be important in determining the labour participation behaviour, particularly for …

. We present single equation estimates on remittances and financial inclusion, and system estimates in which economic … growth is explained by e.g., financial inclusion, and financial inclusion by, e.g., remittances inflows. These regressions … clearly confirm our main hypothesis that remittances have a development impact through their effect on financial inclusion …

We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances are then compared with those based on a no-migration scenario. Counterfactual household incomes are estimated, taking …

In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing … find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also … of disaster shocks on the real exchange rate and on the level of remittances across the two samples. …

disasters and remittances affect each other but also reviews the distribution of female-headed households in Jamaica as a … percentage of households living below the poverty line and seeks to identify whether flows of remittances alleviate the post … disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for migration and future remittances. After …