dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards … Survey III (NLSS III) to examine how remittances affect household expenditures on human capital investment. Overall, our …

The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a …

The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

left behind. Migrants' relatives build their expectations on earnings from migration through received information on the … wage distribution in the destination country either from the size of remittances or directly from migrants. If their … expected earnings from migration greatly exceed their current wages in the source country, migrant relatives become more …

results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not …We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from …

The study investigated the relationship among remittances, financial development and economic growth in a panel of 20 …/ARDL estimations with panel unit root and cointegration tests. After establishing cointegration, remittances and financial development … financial development acted as a substitute in the remittances-growth relationship. Finally, unidirectional causal relationships …

a given year, many of whom will return to their home countries. Temporary migration benefits sending countries through … remittances, investment, and skills accumulation. Receiving countries benefit via increases in their prime-working age populations …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …