A presentation of remittances, money transfer companies and costs of service in 14 countries of Latin America and the …

family members is negatively associated with childrenś school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this negative …

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …

In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an … unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line … microeconomic level remittances raise incomes and have an impact on consumption expenses and therefore on welfare. They can also …

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 …

to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific … well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio …