The aim of this article is to investigate the causal relationship between remittances and poverty reduction for 14 …-stationary dynamic panel data. Our estimation results reveal that causality nexus of poverty and remittances is bi-directional. We also … weak impact on the poverty, remittances should be taken seriously, and this by taking measures by developed countries to …

Migrants’ remittances to developing countries have increased in recent decades, partly due to reduced transactions … explanation. Despite the difficulties female migrants encounter in the labor market, their total remittances may be higher and …

Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of … return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty …

intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …

This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using …, and the number of hours worked per week declines with the size of remittances received. The size of the impact varies … between urban and rural households. Remittances to urban households have a larger impact on moving children completely out of …

the contemporaneous choice of savings and remittances. Moreover, when comparing the saving profiles of both natives and …

Weltweit erreichen Überweisungen von Migranten in ihr Heimatland (Remittances) ein Ausmaß, das die offizielle … bedeutendsten Herkunftsländer. Aus der Sicht der Empfängerländer spielen Remittances häufig eine große gesamtwirtschaftliche Rolle … Höhe der Remittances von persönlichen Merkmalen abhängt - z. B. vom Alter, der Ausbildung, dem Familienstand oder dem …

remittance income is spent. My findings suggest that in communities without banks remittances are more likely to be used for … increases the likelihood that remittances are used for productive investment and decreases the likelihood that remittances are … remittances for productive investment, purchasing assets, and general consumption. …

The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …