Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses …

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased … enormously over the last decade, academic and policy-oriented research has not come to a consensus over whether remittances …

, South Asians remit the highest amount. We discuss intuitions for the results in the paper. -- Remittances ; immigration …

remittances into account. Moreover, we find that marginal propensity to save for immigrants is about 40% higher than that for … naturalization has caused significant reductions of savings and remittances for immigrants as a whole, in the magnitude of 13% and 29 …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …. -- remittances ; return migration ; Maghreb countries …

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova. -- remittances ; migration …

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