is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …, remittances are higher if close relatives live in the sending country. Finally, Vuong-tests indicate that the double-hurdle model …

, with those with lower prior savings saving differentially more than those with higher prior savings. …

This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is … paid to migrants' savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants who …

The economic impact of remittances on migrant-sending countries has been a subject of debate in the scholarly … Republic of Georgia receives remittances. We then apply propensity score matching to estimate how remittances affect particular … types of household expenditures, savings, labor supply, health, and other measures of well-being. Separate analysis of the …

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that …

The sending of remittances is a decentralised decision of migrant workers, nevertheless it has its macroeconomic …% for Tajikistan (38%) for Haiti (-13%). Subsequently, we explore why the extent of risk sharing through remittances is so … risk sharing via remittances: the more diverse the migration destinations of a country, higher will be the amount of risk …

mainly from the late 1990s. Migration can be individual or household strategy for survival and remittances play a role in … international remittances on sustainability of family livelihood in small mining town of Chegutu located in Mashonaland West … Province of Zimbabwe using survey data. I found out that remittances go a long way in providing income for basic services like …

Using data for Germany, we analyze the impact of migration and remittances by developing an open-economy general … equilibrium model with heterogeneous households. Within the model, the flows of remittances depend on the altruism of households … interrelation between household characteristic and remittances, we are able to derive altruism coefficients for different types of …