costs are not too low. Exogenous shocks, such as an increase in the foreign wage, lead to an increase in optimal remittances …. Hence, in equilibrium, optimal remittances and number of migrants are positively related. We use data from twenty five … estimates put forward a positive elasticity of the number of migrants with respect to remittances per migrant. Policy …

. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth …, investment and savings, net foreign debt, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate … shows permanent effects, which are positive only for China. In the poor countries, investment, remittances, savings, tax …

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 simple model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education will be inversed-U shaped, with the increasing segment being longer (resp. shorter …

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international …, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls …

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for … sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …

proportions in EB-2 and EB-3 sent remittances than in the cohort overall. (6) A little measure of assimilation - using dollars to …

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their … family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits … in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a given real volume of remittances back to the family in the sending …

' education. -- remittances ; migration ; brain drain ; immigration policy …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 …