This study sheds light on the effect that international remittances have on expenditure patterns of urban households in … that households which receive remittances from abroad spend, on average and ceteris paribus, a higher share of their … households which do not receive remittances. Moreover, looking at the effect of international remittances on marginal spending …

but this impact can vary widely. At the meso-economic level relevant data show that migration and remittances concentrate …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 …

We raise the issue of how appropriately to attribute economic impact to consumption expenditures. Despite the salience …-Output analysis consumption expenditures are either treated as wholly endogenous or wholly exogenous. For many applications, such as … those focusing on the impacts of tourism, benefits systems or student expenditures, these binomial assumptions are not …

In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in remittances of international migrants, as their strong … recent increase shed more light on the effects at both micro and macro level. The remittances not only contribute to the well …-being of the receiving households, but are also a large source of external financing, second only to FDI. The remittances are …

Although migration and religion studies have traditionally developed as separate research topics, in the current … studies of migration raise the importance and role of religion in the international migration flows, distinguish between the … socio-economic and religious inclusion of the immigrants in the host country or discuss the role that migration plays in the …