This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both … parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and …

The question of whether remittances and foreign aid at the macro level impact private consumption in SSA has been … showed that foreign aid and remittances exerted positive but insignificant impact on private consumption …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …

We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by … remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of … remittances from Germany are altruistically motivated. In addition, we find that the coefficient on the stock of Turkish migrants …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely … as the immediate needs of family left back home are addressed and immigrants settle down in their host communities …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … exports with Germany to total exports with Germany and remittances as a ratio of Turkish GDP. The results of this study show …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …. -- remittances ; return migration ; Maghreb countries …

; Remittances ; German Socio Economic Panel …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …. -- remittances ; return migration ; Maghreb countries …