addition, it is known that the welfare state, being an insurance or consumption-smoothing mechanism, reduces the negative … 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 …

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …

Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In … capture a (negative) relationship between risk aversion and emigration intention, a Control Function strategy using the two …

simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a substitution effect between voicing and emigration. We subsequently … numbers of press reports, is associated with lower emigration rates. This substitution effect holds for both internal and …

This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …

supports that UN and joint EU-US sanctions increase emigration from target countries by around 20 percent. Our event study … results for joint EU-US sanctions imply a gradual increase in emigration over the course of a sanction episode. The impact of … countries with fewer political rights and civil liberties, where emigration substitutes for the costly voicing of dissent …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …