During a global shock two forces act upon international remittances in opposite directions: income losses among … migrants may reduce their ability to send remittances and, at the same time, migrants' concern for their family's wellbeing may … prompt them to send more remittances back home. Which of these drivers prevail is an empirical matter. We assemble quarterly …

reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological … distance to train lines and labor market conditions in the US as exogenous determinants of remittances. …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy …

How do climate disasters shape migration? The existing evidence presents conflicting and inconclusive findings. To … address this question, we theorize the cognitive processes guiding migration decisions in the wake of disasters. On the one … hand, the link between climate disasters and migration aspirations may be driven by sudden-onset (e.g. heavy rains, storms …

The assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit has been an implicit or explicit theoretical foundation of … many empirical studies on remittances. This paper directly tests this assumption by comparing the response to health … to health shocks. This finding is consistent with the view that remittances respond to households' demand for financing …

In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a "catalyst" for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …