Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants’ skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

habits: migrants who regularly use internet banking for other purposes are more likely to use bank services for remittances …

habits: migrants who regularly use internet banking for other purposes are more likely to use bank services for remittances …

Workers' remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants' skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

This paper analyses wage inequality in Spain from 1995 to 2002. Inequality has decreased slightly in this period … on inequality of changes in the composition of the labour force and changes in relative returns. We focus mainly on three … tenure level. On one hand, changes in the composition of the labour force would have increased inequality had the structure …

transfers to other sources of household wealth has had a sizeable effect on reducing the inequality of wealth. …

In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that …

We explore the relationship between financial reforms and income inequality using a panel of 29 countries over 1975 …