This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and …) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …

parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and …This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both … housing, but decrease expenditures on food. This supports the hypotheses that these inflows result in a stronger human capital …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …

Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration … intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …

developing countries by curtailing undocumented immigration, restricting the cyclicality of migration flows and limiting … remittances as one of the least volatile sources of income in the developing world. …

search models by matching second-generation immigrants to their ethnic Danish twins according to parental characteristics and …