. One important element of this theory is the role of remittances that is absent in traditional migration theories. In this …In this study we analyse the impact of workers' remittances on the decision to migrate by means of cointegration … analysis. In traditional migration theories, especially in human capital models, the decision to migrate is based upon …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

families who do not return those investments in order to prevent their own possibilities of receiving future remittances and … investments from being adversely affected. We find that in equilibrium we can have remittances to be invested and given back to … the migrant and remittances for private consumption by the migrant's family even in the complete absence of altruism on …

, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … unwarranted. First, sustained migratory flows may be associated with an equally large flow of remittances. Second, migrants may … to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … that migration, trade, aid and remittances are interrelated, however, migration will be better managed when the dynamic … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish …