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 …

depreciation in human capital with migration or differences in endowments. However, even after considering human capital measures …Theoretisch lassen sich Lohnunterschiede zwischen Migranten und Einheimischen mithilfe der Humankapitaltheorie erklären …. Diese unterstellt Ausstattungsunterschiede oder eine Abwertung von Humankapital bei Migration. Trotzdem bleibt auch nach …

Dieses Papier untersucht die Auswirkungen des Arbeitskräfteangebot von Migranten auf die Beschäftigung von … Auswirkungen eines höheren Arbeitskräfteangebots von Migranten, abzüglich der zusätzlichen Ausgaben bei der Ankunftfi, die die …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will … educations. Their younger siblings, in contrast, may still be in school, and thus will be affected by the parental migration …

over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values …

, remittances are higher if close relatives live in the sending country. Finally, Vuong-tests indicate that the double-hurdle model … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor …

terms of covariate distributions of the treatment and comparison groups – using propensity score matching.We find a positive …