flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …

This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the … period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these …

We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes. Remittances appear to have a … in size than those of foreign direct investment or offcial development aid. On the supply side, remittances reduce labor … significantly different sensitivities to remittances. On the demand side, remittances reduce overall unemployment but benefit mostly …

This paper investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient … remittances; the share of consumption in tradables; and the sensitivity of a country’s risk premium to remittance flows. Panel …

There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper … attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large … sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on …

This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers'' remittances and …, even after controlling for potential reverse causality. We find that a higher ratio of remittances to GDP is associated …