ondevelopment efforts. The resurgence of foreign direct investment (FDI) and theincreasing significance of remittances, both as …, with female employment rate getting the largest impact – relative to males.Remittances are another capital flow that plays … adequately to standard shocks, a remittances shock is introduced to examinethe dynamic response of the representative economy …

economies and development economists having dissenting views about the impact of emigration and remittances on source countries … within-country variation in the historic location choices of migrants as well as arguably exogenous national shocks to …-coping mechanisms since remittances may play an insurance role. I provide evidence that remittances have transformed farming practices …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …

Savings are one of the important determinants beyond the theories of economic growth. Therefore remittances and foreign … between economic growth, remittances, foreign direct investment inflows and gross domestic savings in Turkey during the period … 1974-2013 by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach. We found that remittances, foreign direct investment and gross …

’t migration itself, but the integration of migrants in host societies. …

Charakteristika von Rücküberweisungen pakistanischer Migranten in ihr Heimatland analysieren, sowie deren ökonomische Auswirkungen auf … Transaktionskosten beeinflusst, so dass Migranten in Zeiten hoher Transaktionskosten Rücküberweisungen ins Heimatland entweder einstellen …

remittances sent by migrants to their families and, on the other hand, the dominant position of Money Transfer Operators (MTO … and increases the level of remittances, allows an optimal consumption smoothing and improves the welfare of migrants and …A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players …

GDP, inequality, and remittances in the period from approximately 1998-2003. The poverty data set has been collected and … standardized by the World Bank and is an unusually good panel data set on poverty. I find that remittances have no significant … that this is because of the way that remittances are transferred and used. Many remittances in the regions analyzed never …

This paper discusses the energy savings that could be obtained in Sweden by instituting specific standards for five … appliances: Refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. At the present time, Sweden has no minimum …