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

This paper examines the subjective treatment effects of a negative shock created by the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour …-level that were purposely collected from over 7,000 individuals to this aim. Our findings suggest that the shock denied …

This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of … countries suggest that following the initial shock at the start of the pandemic, employment rates partially recovered between …

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 …

insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …