What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of …

potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … to be a sustainable solution to unbalanced global economic developments. Remittances, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and …. Remittances offer no structural solution to reduction of poverty as these funds flow to a selective group of families and are …

, receipt of remittances, and return migration) and the risk of LBW and macrosomia. We examine this association using two sets … potential sources of endogeneity. Whereas community remittances and return migration are associated with lower risk of LBW, they …Research on the relationship between migration and infant health in Mexico finds that migration has mixed impacts on …

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … world's largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP. Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region's GDP …

exercises control for the likely endogeneity between remittances and migration variables, on the one hand, and developmental … role of international migration has been under-emphasized. In an effort to contribute toward filling that gap, it presents … evidence suggesting that remittances sent by international migrants are associated with improved developmental outcomes. Using …

New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income … generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of migration on income sources in Northeast … China. Migration is found to increase farm incomes but decrease self-employed incomes. …

investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier … effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with data from five Mediterranean countries. The analysis reveals a uniform … changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …

Migrant remittances are an increasingly important type of international financial flow for providing both additional … resources for development as well as consumption expenditures for poverty alleviation. One geographical area where these flows … providing a source of external finance for the recipient countries. Data on remittances generally, but especially in this region …

transnational migration and remittances are entirely mediated by the human capital profile of emigrants, as determined by … open up their immigration policies so as to enable migrants' remittances to substitute for foreign aid as a growth … provokes a "brain drain", growth is negatively impacted in the sending country despite remittances. The reverse is true when …

somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …