Este documento analiza las variables macroeconomicas que determinan el flujo de remesas familiares de Estados Unidos a … Mexico. Se expone una hipotesis fundamentada en una amplia revision de la teoria sobre flujo de remesas y se efectua un … perspectiva sintetica, los determinantes de largo plazo de las remesas familiares que llegan a Mexico. El analisis empirico …

El aumento de los flujos migratorios y la importancia de los flujos de remesas hacia países emergentes han motivado … desde los años 70’s el estudio de los determinantes de las remesas. El primer paso para acercarse a este problema es … documento hace un repaso de literatura que se han desarrollado para describir los incentivos de los migrantes a enviar remesas …

El aumento de los flujos migratorios y la importancia de los flujos de remesas hacia países emergentes han motivado … desde los años 70´s el estudio de los determinantes de las remesas. El primer paso para acercarse a este problema es … documento hace un repaso de literatura que se han desarrollado para describir los incentivos de los migrantes a enviar remesas …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We …

addition, it is known that the welfare state, being an insurance or consumption-smoothing mechanism, reduces the negative … welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

. On the micro level remittances may constitute the major source of income and become a means towards consumption smoothing …Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the … (migration as survival strategy). Notwithstanding, the very nature of remittances and underlying factors are still under …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …