The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … that emigration lowers savings and labour force growth. The total effect of net migration on GDP per capita is to increase … of countries with per capita income below $1200 (2000). We estimate regressions for dynamic equations of migration …

countries reduce taxation and public expenditure on education as a share of GDP. This may slow down growth of human capital, one … of the major growth factors. In poor countries they raise more tax revenues and spend more money on education, which is … likely to support growth. Strong non-linearities, which differ by country group, make the effects of shocks dependent on the …

The credit crisis of OECD countries has a negative impact on the growth of the world economy according to a simple … error correction model. This causes negative growth effects in poor developing countries. The reduced growth has a direct or … indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth …

Remittances may have an impact on economic growth through channels to physical and human capital. We estimate two … per capita when compared to the counterfactual of having no remittances. Their ratio of the steady-state growth rates with …

We are interested in the relation between Gini coefficients of education, educational variables, and growth. We specify … a system of 14 difference equations with lagged dependent variables in education variables, as well as a growth … regression, auxiliary equations for savings and investment ratios, and the growth of the labour force and estimate all of them …

Migration in a globalising world is on the increase, especially migration of the highly skilled. It is quite natural … impact of migration negative for the country of origin and therefore "brain drain" turned into "brain gain" when it was seen …. The road in the middle is called "brain strain" emphasising that out migration can be either positive or negative for the …

This paper aims to understand the links between migration and poverty at the community level. Most of the research to … date on the links between migration and poverty has been conducted at the micro level, while research related to migration …) education, 3) livelihood and 4) health. We look at different rates of poverty by migration/remittance prevalence and country …

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that … has previously not received much attention in the migration literature, namely household subjective economic well …