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

We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with … relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions … as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for remittances to persons and to charities. We …

How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by … over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that remittances are slow to respond to natural disasters, unresponsive to outbreaks … incomes, migration stocks, exchange rates, and the banking system. The relative persistence of remittances suggests that it is …

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 …

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

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 … between remittances and migrants’ education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on household expenditure patterns While two separate … strands of literature have looked at how social assistance or remittances have been spent, few studies have compared them … fungible, we find that social assistance and remittances have different impacts on expenditure patterns having controlled for …

This paper aims to analyse migration and remittances in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) on the case … Ukrainian Migration Project (UMP). More specifically, it seeks to examine features and determinants of migration and remittances … receiving household. Moreover, we did not find any support for channelling remittances primarily into non-productive consumption …