; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …

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 …

We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances … address three econometric issues that may bias the estimates. We account for endogeneity of the remittances with respect to … remittances. However, contrary to previous findings, the labour market response to remittances of female household heads is not as …

This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …

Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the …. On the micro level remittances may constitute the major source of income and become a means towards consumption smoothing … (migration as survival strategy). Notwithstanding, the very nature of remittances and underlying factors are still under …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of … Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from … 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain the household's standard of living by providing income to …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a purchase of self-insurance motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …