Giovanni, Julian di; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014
differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … -such as Jamaica or El Salvador- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The welfare … countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of skills …