-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …

-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … associated with less upward mobility. Our results contribute to literatures on immigrant assimilation, refugee migration, and the … Age of Mass Migration …

previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …