We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will … educations. Their younger siblings, in contrast, may still be in school, and thus will be affected by the parental migration …

over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values …

In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses …

, remittances are higher if close relatives live in the sending country. Finally, Vuong-tests indicate that the double-hurdle model … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically and from a … global viewpoint whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our … similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our results support migration …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …