We investigate the responsiveness of remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to the changes in … price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real … economic activities in the receiving countries, this study emphasises the impact of remittances on the remitting countries. We …

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

This study investigates the impact of remittances on credit markets in Senegal. The findings show that remittances and … credit markets are complements; namely, the receipt of remittances increases the likelihood of having a loan in a household …. This result is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity of remittances through household fixed effects and an …

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

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals … reform impact remittances differently. Increased economic freedom in the financial sector, captured by absence of direct … remittances is slightly negative. Our results suggest that countries using liberalization to cope with external imbalances will …

remittance-sending countries. We first find that receiving remittances has no significant effect on child labour on average …. However, when the disruptive effect from the absence of a family member is ruled out, remittances significantly reduce child … significant age effect: remittances affect the labour market participation of younger children only, suggesting a progressive …

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 …

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the …. On the micro level remittances may constitute the major source of income and become a means towards consumption smoothing … (migration as survival strategy). Notwithstanding, the very nature of remittances and underlying factors are still under …