Europe and looks at the welfare implications of international migration for those who stay behind and the migrants themselves … the common view that decreased labor market activity is the result of remittances-driven leisure consumption. Instead, the … finds that the individual risk of falling victim to human trafficking is closely related to the size of regional migration …

over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values …

Arbeitsmigranten in Deutschland. Es werden hierbei beide Seiten der Migration ins Auge gefasst, also sowohl die Migranten selbst als … Migrationsmotive und geben Einblick in die soziökonomische Situation der Migranten. Wir gehen dabei auch auf die Dauer der Migration …Die kosovarische Wirtschaft hängt stark von Geldflüssen aus dem Ausland ab. Eine hohe Zahl von Migranten tragen mit …

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 …