Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants …

may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between … trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from LDCs so far are very scarce …. The paper utilizes a new dataset that is based on migration from 86 African and Asian countries to Germany. Information is …

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

This study investigates the impact of remittances on credit markets in Senegal. The findings show that remittances and … credit markets are complements; namely, the receipt of remittances increases the likelihood of having a loan in a household …. This result is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity of remittances through household fixed effects and an …

We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most … of family members is negatively associated with children's school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this … negative effect. Migration of non-parent family members (such as siblings) is particularly detrimental to school attendance …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

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 …