Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …

. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate …

eight years: the national poverty rate decreased from 26.4 percent in 2008 to 9.6 percent in 2015. Remittances by emigrants …

As one of the most pivotal ways that labor markets adjust to changing economic conditions, international migration is … international migration trends and household well-being using a combination of administrative records and unique panel survey data …-invariant respondent and location characteristics. The findings show that weak local labor markets drive labor migration from Uzbekistan …

By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …

correlated with variation in remittances: greater underreporting by wives is associated with lower remittances. An exchange model … of remittances is developed with asymmetric information and costly state verification. The optimal remittance contract … prescribes a threshold for remittances that invites verification only if unmet. The model's predictions closely match our …

-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …