pt. 1. Different types of cross-border labour mobility and skills-job mismatch -- pt. 2. The extent and qualitative characteristics of migration and return against the background of crisis and recovery -- pt. 3. Policy implications of, and responses to, cross-border labour mobility in the EU...

"Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households' responses to overseas members' economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work in...

There is a heated debate on the effects of the current global financial crisis on remittances to developing countries. Current estimates of the effects rely on questionable assumptions and are not well suited to predict changes in inflows to individual developing countries following the crisis....

Remittances to Asia plunged during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but the drop was temporary as the flows were increasing once again after just 1 year. The current crisis, however, is fundamentally different in that even the countries that send remittances have been adversely affected. The...