The economic impact of remittances on migrant-sending countries has been a subject of debate in the scholarly … Republic of Georgia receives remittances. We then apply propensity score matching to estimate how remittances affect particular … subsample of households with a migrant currently abroad distinguishes the effects of remittances from the effects of migration …

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that …

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 … risk sharing via remittances: the more diverse the migration destinations of a country, higher will be the amount of risk …

mainly from the late 1990s. Migration can be individual or household strategy for survival and remittances play a role in … international remittances on sustainability of family livelihood in small mining town of Chegutu located in Mashonaland West … Province of Zimbabwe using survey data. I found out that remittances go a long way in providing income for basic services like …

Using data for Germany, we analyze the impact of migration and remittances by developing an open-economy general … equilibrium model with heterogeneous households. Within the model, the flows of remittances depend on the altruism of households … interrelation between household characteristic and remittances, we are able to derive altruism coefficients for different types of …

Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on household expenditure patterns While two separate … strands of literature have looked at how social assistance or remittances have been spent, few studies have compared them … fungible, we find that social assistance and remittances have different impacts on expenditure patterns having controlled for …

This paper aims to analyse migration and remittances in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) on the case … Ukrainian Migration Project (UMP). More specifically, it seeks to examine features and determinants of migration and remittances … receiving household. Moreover, we did not find any support for channelling remittances primarily into non-productive consumption …

Remittances to developing nations have become an important source of income to finance the recipient households … improve in wellbeing. The Pacific Islands have also seen to a significant rise in remittances and it has become a steady …. More recently, remittances form a substantial flow through temporary labour schemes. Fiji’s rising migrant stock has seen …