We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is … examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease in homicide rates. Every 1 percent increase in the number of households …

Remittances constitute a significant safety net for millions of households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC … of remittances. The recovery of remittances was accompanied by a modest and temporary increase in the interest in digital …

. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European … countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …