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 …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; migration ; brain …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … countries and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare …

entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. -- migration ; households ; remittances …