the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …

households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …