We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

equilibrium model to analyze the effects of remittances in emerging market economies. We find that, whether altruistically … also indicate that remittances improve households'welfare as they smooth income flows and increase consumption and leisure …

Using disaggregated sectorial data, this study shows that rising levels of remittances have spending effects that lead …

-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and … documents the insurance role of remittances in consumption smoothing. Over the cycle, immigration increases with the expected … stream of future wage gains, but it is dampened by a sunk emigration cost. Migration barriers slow the adjustment of the …

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …

the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with … economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the … means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … that wealth has a nonlinear effect on migration, and then examines the empirical evidence for an inverse U …

that migration yields no additional payoffs. However, there is no evidence that households benefit from higher education if … migration is only temporary. Altogether, this signals positive payoffs of educational expenses to rural households but …