Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …

country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … hypothetical scenarios for skilled labor migration from the African to the European countries. It is demonstrated that the European … distribution where employment rates are low. Hence, more regular and skilled labor migration from African countries will unlikely …

The main goal of our paper was to apply our research methodology on the specific case of the Ukrainian migration and … remittances in the Czech Republic. In contrast to previous studies, we provide a more detailed insight into the specifications of … having skilled position. Our results demonstrate that reverse economic effects of remittances on the source country might be …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …