Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006
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 … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …