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 …

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …

wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …

remittances into account. Moreover, we find that marginal propensity to save for immigrants is about 40% higher than that for … naturalization has caused significant reductions of savings and remittances for immigrants as a whole, in the magnitude of 13% and 29 …

Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants’ skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

habits: migrants who regularly use internet banking for other purposes are more likely to use bank services for remittances …

can explain the relationship between natural disasters and migration. Moreover, migrants' remittances help to decrease …

-family transfers and education. We highlight an education motive for remittances, according to which migrants have an incentive to … constraints are binding and education is fostered by migrant remittances. We test these hypotheses on Indian panel data …. Identification is based on within variation in household composition. We find that remittances received from migrants significantly …