This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

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 …

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 … Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. We investigate the remittance behaviour using the migrants' conditions before migration as well … as during the migration experience. Using a two-part model, we show that the decision to remit and the amount remitted …

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 …

) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a …' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important … of the effect that migration policies have on remittance flows can lead to more informed policies that can transcend the …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that … country. These results provide a fresh outlook on the role of remittances in shaping migration flows in the migrant sending …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While … less likely to sponsor relatives, presumably because of relatively higher opportunity cost of migration of their relatives …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in …

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … attachment to the household would be more inclined to remit money home. Therefore, remittances can be seen as a proxy for the …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …