authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on …

the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. The authors find that the effect of transaction costs on … home or make them remit through informal channels. They also find that remittances are facilitated by the existence of …

important role for non-migrating family members. From a political economy perspective, remittances are characteristic of such … remittances in cash and in kind from emigrant Romanian adult children to elderly parents back home. Both forms of upward support … remittances of family commitments over time and of needs and opportunities. The sample includes 2109 parent-child dyads with data …

of intra-EU remittances as one of the major determinants of migration has been outside the scope of recent research … remittances can provide a valuable case study of intra-EU private transfer flows. The aims of this study are twofold. On the one … Migration (NELM) to identify the underlying motivations for remittances. The most important findings are that older men with …

In the last decade, remittances have become connected to financialization, expanding financial markets and deepening … financial logics in what has been termed the financialization of remittances (FOR). In Nepal, where remittances are of key … importance, this manifests itself in the country's development strategy through attempts to formalize remittances and promote …

Remittances sent by refugees to their home countries has been a hotly debated policy topic in Germany over the past … of people living in Germany who send remittances abroad has changed over time according to their migration background … analysis shows that migrants without a refugee background send remittances more often, while refugees are often rarely able to …

paper, we study the effect of US monetary policy on remittance flows into economies in Latin American and the Caribbean. The … role of Fed policy for remittances has not yet been studied. We estimate a series of panel local projections for remittance …

There are varied findings on how the remittances, financial development and economic growth relationship works. Some … results show that remittances positively impact economic growth while financial development is found to have no significant … impact on economic growth. The interaction between the remittances and financial development variables is, however, found to …