empirical literature on returns, remittances and behavior of immigrants in host economies, including labor markets …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

invest or to consume those remittances. Previous studies have devoted extensive attention to migrants' altruism toward … recipients and little to recipients' altruism toward migrants. We find that the migrant sends larger remittances home when he …We investigate the effects of altruism on migrants' decisions to send money home and on their households' decisions to …

unresolved issue, namely whether remittances increase or decrease with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial … in the few existing studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …

migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …

home and host country factors with altruism motive as an ubiquitous underlying element. We find that men's behaviour is … among Filipinos overseas and depresses women's remittances by over fifty per cent. Clearly, the economic and social losses … associated with this kind of labour market outcome are significant. Remittances ; Immigrants …

The paper analyses determinants and motivations of internal migrant remittances based on a unique data set that … engaged in the service sector remit lower shares of their income and remittances decrease as the household wealth increases …. Furthermore, we explore the behavioral side of remittances by constructing proxy groups that represent each strand of migrant …