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 …

Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor … characteristics of circular movers worldwide and investigates the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Recent policy …

of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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 …