This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using …, and the number of hours worked per week declines with the size of remittances received. The size of the impact varies … between urban and rural households. Remittances to urban households have a larger impact on moving children completely out of …

We examine the determinants of migrants' choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest … remittances sent back home to preserve households' assets in marginal dry areas. …

This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and …) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …

work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience …

Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of … return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty …. In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving decisions at an early stage of migration, when their long term …

Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration … intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …

the contemporaneous choice of savings and remittances. Moreover, when comparing the saving profiles of both natives and …

Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of … return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty …. In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving decisions at an early stage of migration, when their long term …

, individual Differences-in-Differences and matching is used to deal with the potential selection bias. The results point at a …