The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less … clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the … receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by examining how remittances are affected by domestic and external …

which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes. Remittances appear to have a … in size than those of foreign direct investment or offcial development aid. On the supply side, remittances reduce labor … significantly different sensitivities to remittances. On the demand side, remittances reduce overall unemployment but benefit mostly …

There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper … attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large … sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on …

This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers'' remittances and …, even after controlling for potential reverse causality. We find that a higher ratio of remittances to GDP is associated …

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 …

-recipient countries and the rest of the world. Using both aggregate and bilateral remittances data in a panel data setting, the study … analysis suggests that measures of openness and spillovers could be enhanced by accounting for the role of the remittances …

This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the … period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. At low levels of remittances-to-GDP, these …

capital, but it also creates a flow of remittances and increases international connections in the form of trade, FDI, and …