This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … countries and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). … der Maquiladora-Industrie in Mexiko (Kapitel 4), dem Zusammenspiel von Migration und Handel und deren Auswirkungen auf die …

This paper examines the effect of international migration on the welfare of family members left behind at the origin … provides a new unified framework that generates testable predictions of whether migration increases non-migrants' welfare in … improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

estimation of these linkages is also shown to matter for gauging the sensitivity of remittances to economic conditions in the … home country, and hence the extent to which remittances might buffer domestic shocks as well as transmitting external ones …. -- Remittances ; Business Cycles ; Central America ; Mexico ; United States …

risk sharing via remittances: the more diverse the migration destinations of a country, higher will be the amount of risk …The sending of remittances is a decentralised decision of migrant workers, nevertheless it has its macroeconomic …% for Tajikistan (38%) for Haiti (-13%). Subsequently, we explore why the extent of risk sharing through remittances is so …

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …

results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not …We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …