Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most … visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves … that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total amount being sent to the country. The way remittances are distributed …

why remittances are sent. …

This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican …

countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances … remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a …

, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …