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 …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …

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 …

What happens to the distribution of public resources when undocumented migrants obtain legal status through nation …

country increase the risk of terror. High-skilled migrants are associated with a significantly lower risk of terror compared … to low-skilled ones, while there is no significant difference between male and female migrants. …

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … entrance barriers and coercive measures to prevent illegal entry would disappear. However, the pressure of illegal migrants is …