Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …

remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data …This paper reviews common challenges faced by researchers interested in measuring the impact of migration and … remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting …

temporary, partial-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

This study quantifies the outflow of human capital associated with migration from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras … from the three countries. The results suggest that these migrants are, in general, positively selected into migration. That … 2000 and those who arrived by 2014. This finding may reflect increased access to migration networks by lower …

International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in … are also concerns about potential costs of migration, including concerns about trafficking and human rights, a desire for … remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is …

the greatest driver of rising remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the …. Migration and remittances clearly have first-order effects on poverty at the origin, on the welfare of migrants and their …Although measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty …