; international migration ; remittances …Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor … characteristics of circular movers worldwide and investigates the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Recent policy …

-by-year fixed effects. The results are also consistent after employing comprehensive measures of connectedness, employing matching …

, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 …

, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is … 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants …

' education. -- remittances ; migration ; brain drain ; immigration policy …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human …