motivations tied to tenure abroad change the impact of their remittances on venture investment back home. Regression and related … analyses of remittances to 33 developing countries from 2001–2010 indicate that, for migrants residing abroad for less (more …) than a year, remittances significantly increase new business founding rates (venture-funding availability). Our results …

unresolved issue, namely whether remittances increase or decrease with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … sector development and expected growth rate. The estimation takes potential endogeneity into account, an issue not considered …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income …, financial sector development and expected growth rate. The estimation takes potential endogeneity into account, an issue not …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …

Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the …. On the micro level remittances may constitute the major source of income and become a means towards consumption smoothing … (migration as survival strategy). Notwithstanding, the very nature of remittances and underlying factors are still under …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

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 …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …