capita expenditure, work efforts, poverty and inequality. The estimates suggest that a rise in international remittances in … casts doubts on the view that international remittances may play a crucial role in reducing poverty in developing countries. …This study provides new empirical evidence on the impact of international remittances. Using data from the two most …

explored the influence of the complementarity between human capital development and personal remittances on poverty in CEECs …, and very much conflicting. The lag of poverty, remittances, the interaction between human capital development and …The study investigates the impact of human capital development on poverty in Central and Eastern European Countries …

, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is … 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively …

that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …This paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in …

-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the …

?; (c) What are the determinants of migration?; (d) What is the impact of remittances on poverty, inequality, and …While Mexico's southern states differ substantially in terms of their migration profile, many of the issues confronted … can be expected in the future?; (b) To what extent does migration increase per capita income and thereby reduce poverty …

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …

This study investigates the extent to which Mexican workers’ remittances are affected from the recent housing market … has a negative and statistically significant impact on Mexican remittances. At the regional level, foreclosure rates of … the South and the West have a significant impact on workers’ remittances in the same negative direction. However …