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 …What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this …

Workers' remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct … investment. The authors use data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of … remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … products and new cost comparison information sources rely heavily on the financial literacy of migrants. This paper presents … the results of a randomized experiment designed to measure the impact of providing financial literacy training to migrants …

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 … in the aftermath of natural disasters in countries that have a larger number of migrants abroad. Analysis of household …

This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing … world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set … United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a …

remittances, (2) cost of transferring and delivering remittances, (3) regulatory regime for remittance transactions, and (4 … instruments and financial institutions through which remittances take place is limited. Moreover, only a few countries measure … remittances that take place through informal channels. It also finds that the scope of financial authorities in developing …

international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers' remittances can help reduce the … probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and low cyclicality of remittances … as compared with other private capital flows: these properties, combined with the fact that remittances are cheap inflows …