This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin …. Previous literature has produced inconclusive evidence, with some studies suggesting that migration reduces income poverty … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle … Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total … official aid to the same countries. The practice of sending remittances can be seen as one specific thing that migrants do as …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …

This paper investigates the role of worker-firm matching algorithms in accounting for early job separation rates. For … predictors for the job separation rates and propose alternative matching methods using the serial dictatorship. Our simulation … results show that alternative matching methods can substantially reduce job separation rates, suggesting a possible …