' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that … international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is …

migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on … the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the … country of origin, we estimate substantial post-legalization drops in remittances sent home by Mexican-born migrants who …

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among … populations residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within …

elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure … mostly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non-labor income of beneficiaries …

terms of both consumption and leisure time. Drawing on household panel data in rural Mexico, I find that migration increases … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …