remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering dual citizenship, and …

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …

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 …

The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …

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 …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …

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