This article looks at the impact of crime and institutions on FDI into Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1996-2010 period. FDI is disaggregated into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors and three variables related to violent crime are used: homicides, crime victimization, and...

This issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlook includes three articles: Hispanic Economic Employment Conditions by Marie Mora, Hispanic homeowners and worries about housing by Mark Hugo Lopez, the current state of workers' remittances by Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas

What are the preferred policy responses of host country residents to large migration inflows, and to what extent are these preferences driven by contact with migrants as well as values such as humanitarianism This paper addresses these questions using new data on preferences of Colombians for...

This paper explores the impact of refugee return on social cohesion using data from Burundi, a country that experienced high levels of repatriation during the 2000s. It uses a nationwide survey conducted in 2015 and relies on geographic features of the communities for identification purposes....

This paper reviews the empirical literature on workers' remittances. Based on the empirical evidence, we are able to assess the facts and myths about the determinants and consequences of remittances. We also discuss the potential implications of our findings for the theoretical literature on...

This paper re-examines the effects of inflation and exchange rate uncertainty on real economic activity. The existent literature has treated both issues as separate subject matters. It has emphasized either the issue of inflation uncertainty or exchange rate uncertainty on economic growth or on...