countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized … reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of …

This study estimates a Keynesian simultaneous, dynamic macroeconometric model to investigate the impact of remittances … multipliers indicate that impact of remittances on consumption, imports and income are all positive and reduce gradually while … due to remittances through the multiplier process. The remittances-induced output growth rate is highest during the early …

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 …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …

entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …