For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …

The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 … determinants of remittances originating from the United States for a diverse set of approximately 3,800 households with at least … 0.20-0.30. Remittances are more responsive to earnings in households with more adult women relative to men. …

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 …

those in the first cohort, though the policy change has no discernible effect on the level of remittances. …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While … less likely to sponsor relatives, presumably because of relatively higher opportunity cost of migration of their relatives …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in …

and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and …