The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory — arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant … value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary remittances). Using Gallup Balkan Monitor survey data in instrumental …

emigration from Spain with the FDI and remittances sent is confirmed. With the economic downturn, the FDI declines and the number … analyse the interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, exports and imports, and international … remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory, commercial and investment …

part of the labour force from the emigration countries led to a significant flow of remittances. Being viewed as the main … market in Western Europe facilitated the short-term and definitive emigration. The temporary and definitive departure of a … gain of the loss of labour force, remittances are important at macroeconomic level to the extent in which they bring in the …

wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

Migrants' remittances to developing countries have increased in recent decades, partly due to reduced transactions … explanation. Despite the difficulties female migrants encounter in the labor market, their total remittances may be higher and …