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

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … world''s largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP. Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region''s GDP …

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 …

-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been accounted for. It focuses on import prices to reflect the vulnerability … and income per capita. On the other hand, while remittances seem to dampen the adverse effect of import food price shocks …

This paper discusses migration and remittances trends, and calculates the natural (or benchmark) level of dollarization … remittances due to the economic slowdown since the spread of COVID-19 affects the macroeconomic fundamentals that determine demand …