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Chapter 17 The Economics of Migrants' Remittances
Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023661
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532860
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282554
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Remittances, Migrants’ Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861933
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369415
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Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004562
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 817-828
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010588337
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358645