Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

framework how the receipt of internal remittances (from within Ghana) and international remittances (from African or other … food, education and housing. Contrary to other studies, which find that remittances are spent disproportionately on … receiving remittances in Ghana do not spend more at the margin on food, education and housing than households with similar …

households with no remittances. These increased expenditures on education represent investment in human capital. Like other …The author uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from … Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on …

What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this … examine the determinants of remittances. The paper finds that the skill composition of migrants does matter in remittance … determination. Countries which export a larger share of high-skilled (educated) migrants receive less per capita remittances than …

This paper investigates the impact of international migration on technical efficiency, resource allocation and income … from agricultural production of family farming in Albania. The results suggest that migration is used by rural households … as a pathway out of agriculture: migration is negatively associated with the allocation of both labor and non …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … remains high for many migration corridors. International efforts to lower costs by facilitating the entry of new financial … remittance products. But it does not change either the frequency or level of remittances. …

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 …

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

This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal …' decision to participate in the labor market. The results indicate that male migration for work has a negative impact on the … both on observable and unobservable characteristics) in the impact of male migration. The findings highlight the important …

matching as well as village and household networks as instruments for remittances receipts, average estimates suggest that …The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances … on households' spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems …