This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and …) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super …

in the Pacific island countries in maximizing the benefits of migration and remittances on their economic development. We … remittances by switching to the lowest-cost providers. We also find that exposure to new information thanks to migration … use a newly collected household survey about temporary migration in the region and implement a data audit on remittance …

remittance income by employing statistical matching to construct counterfactuals that allow us to compare the occurrence in child … labor in comparable households that differ solely in their access to remittances. We find that remittances have in general … failed to mitigate household reliance on child labor in Punjab. However, the impact depends critically on whether remittances …

encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the … transformation of advanced economies, the remittances migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national … labour migration represents the most recent form of economic imperialism and global domination. A closer look at the economic …