migration has a stronger effect on household expenditures than permanent migration. -- expenditures ; remittances ; migration …This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset …/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown …

This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …

We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … equalizing change in the marginal effects of remittances was the highest. This provides supporting evidence for the migration … diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

Since the 1990s, Moldova has relied on migration as a vent for labour oversupply and on inflows of migrant remittances … this may intensify labour migration from Moldova. The paper considers opportunities for Moldova, an open economy with …

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 …

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 …

We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by … remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of … remittances from Germany are altruistically motivated. In addition, we find that the coefficient on the stock of Turkish migrants …