parent migrating, and the impact of migration and remittances on the children left behind is still notably absent in the …

Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to … developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for … developing countries. Yet, literature on worker remittances has so far focused mainly on the impact of remittances on income …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …

focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population growth and secondary school enrolment. This has not received adequate … attention in the literature, as many papers have primarily focused on the impact of remittances on economic growth. Design …/methodology/approach Leveraging on the macro-level approach to migration, remittances and the economy, this research considers the nexus among the …

This paper provides the kernel of the migration literature on remittances. It started from their three most debated … features: stability, cyclicality and sustainability. Then moved to the motives driving remittances and, finally, their … productive investments, ‘substituting’ their liquidity constraints with pro-cyclical remittances. On the other hand, from a …