Although measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty …. First, it offers evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory -- arising from … the greatest driver of rising remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the …

borrowing or remittances, significantly impact saving rates. The macroeconomic and microeconomic analyses of the determinants of … remittances …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … are robust to the use of different instruments that attempt to correct for the potential endogeneity of remittances …

This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in … regime classification, whereas the data for remittances and all other variables are from the World Bank's World Development … economic growth following an increase in remittances, but also that the impact of remittances on growth is positive under a …