This paper analyzes the direct and indirect income effects of international labor migration and remittances in selected CIS countries. The analysis is based on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models for Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. All net emigration countries would...

Remittances play important role for the economy of Central Asian countries. This article uses a unique representative household budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyze the determinants of remittances for permanent and seasonal migrants from the Kyrgyz Republic. Empirical...

This paper uses a unique representative household budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyze the impact of international migration and remittances on crop income of rural farmers in the Kyrgyz Republic. Unlike other studies we allow the impact of remittances to be different for...