, with female employment rate getting the largest impact – relative to males.Remittances are another capital flow that plays … ondevelopment efforts. The resurgence of foreign direct investment (FDI) and theincreasing significance of remittances, both as … goods and services. I then showthat FDI has a positive and significant effect on the employment rates in these hostcountries …

This work analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a … uses Markov probabilities where the probability for the next employment status of the agent depends on the current status …Diese Arbeit modelliert das Spar- und Konsumverhalten von Individuen in Deutschland mit einem Lebenszyklusmodell. Dabei …

employment is ambiguous in the model. Simulations show that there are cases when reduction of the unemployment benefits … unemployed worker finds a job or not, but is observed only if a worker fails to find employment.It is shown that changes in the … the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of …

natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben … estimation methods for panel data and for duration analyses are applied to administrative microdata and survey microdata. In line …

economies and development economists having dissenting views about the impact of emigration and remittances on source countries …-coping mechanisms since remittances may play an insurance role. I provide evidence that remittances have transformed farming practices … labor shortages, remittances can be a source of insurance and investment finance that fosters agricultural development …

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

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 …

A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players …. Furthermore, remittances have been identified as a potential catalyst for the financial deepening of receiving countries through …-period financial model of remittances without uncertainty. The formulation acknowledges, on the one hand, the altruism component of …