This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … countries and about 10% for the main sending countries. -- migration ; remittances ; international trade ; welfare …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … migrants, rather than characteristics of their family situations, explains much of the higher remittances …

effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …