estimation of these linkages is also shown to matter for gauging the sensitivity of remittances to economic conditions in the … home country, and hence the extent to which remittances might buffer domestic shocks as well as transmitting external ones. …

This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in … inequality is in both countries a consequence of rising upper tail dispersion. Contrary to the U.S. experience, where the rise is …