In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international … organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of the main engines to promote globalization … effects and uses of migrant remittances. Furthermore, using different case studies from Europe and Asia, the paper addresses …

Remittances have risen spectacularly in recent decades, capturing the attention of researchers and policymakers and … spurring debate on their pros and cons. Remittances can improve the well-being of family members left behind and boost the …

the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction costs on … home or make them remit through informal channels. They also find that remittances are facilitated by the existence of …

This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …

mostly by reducing the probability of receiving domestic remittances. As a result, the non-labor income of beneficiaries …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

suitable to control for unobserved heterogeneity as well as simultaneous bias existing between remittances and migrant's stock …. The main novelty with respect to the existing literature is the use of transaction costs of remittances as a superior … remittances, such as improved economic conditions in the receiving country, Pakistani migrant's stock in the source country, and …

remittances into account. Moreover, we find that marginal propensity to save for immigrants is about 40% higher than that for … naturalization has caused significant reductions of savings and remittances for immigrants as a whole, in the magnitude of 13% and 29 …

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable … economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased … enormously over the last decade, academic and policy-oriented research has not come to a consensus over whether remittances …