Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase … countries export labour to a third country. The third country imposes differential tax rates on the income of foreign workers … country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …

remittances patterns. Using a new detailed household dataset on migration in the Republic of Moldova, it is shown that return is … respective migrant networks. Concerning remittances, the results indicate that temporary migrants remit around 30% more than … temporary migration is relatively more favorable for developing countries as it fosters higher remittances, repatriation of …

indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … primarily enhance consumption, they may have no lasting impact on economic growth. However, through asset accumulation and human … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards …

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 …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

This paper provides a fact sheet of domestic and international remittances at the State level and across household … characteristics and discusses the extent of remittance dependency, it's growth since the 1990's, the different uses of remittances …-08, 60% being Inter-State transfers and 80% directed towards rural households (b) Domestic remittances financed over 30% of …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …. Together, these two results suggest a positive association between education and remittances, which is indeed, what we find in … repaying implicit educational loans) cannot completely explain the positive association between education and remittances. Our …

highest emigration percentage flows in the world. Migrant remittances are an increasingly important source of income for both …The issue of emigration is a very important concern for Albania and Macedonia due to the fact that a high percentage of … countries. For these two economies, remittances are the largest type of international financial inflow and are larger than …