country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a return of skills that might have been lost in migration. We show …

language, fit remittance flows well. Remittances also react to inflation and exchange rate movements in recipient countries to … sustain their purchasing power. In line with the altruism hypothesis, remittances flow to countries with higher age dependency … ratio. Remittances are countercyclical and help stabilize outputs in recipient countries. However, global shocks resulting …

This paper investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient … remittances; the share of consumption in tradables; and the sensitivity of a country’s risk premium to remittance flows. Panel …

The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for … remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because remittances take place under asymmetric information and economic …

remittances on the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy and trace their effects on real and nominal variables in a business cycle … setting. We show that remittances raise disposable income and consumption, and insure against income shocks, thereby raising … household welfare. However, remittances increase the correlation between labor and output, thereby producing a more volatile …

We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter''s impact on microeconomic …-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work …