steadily. Previous studies on labor migration and remittances in Republic of Moldova underline both the role of remittances in …As a consequence of the increased number of Moldovan migrants, the volume of remittances inflows to Moldova raised … aim to analyze the variation of money transfers of Moldovan migrants in order to estimate the trend of the remittances …

This paper analyzes the effect of earned and unearned remittances on agricultural productivity in Nepal. This approach … differs from the existing practice of studying the impact of total remittances on socio-economic outcomes. In particular, we … disaggregate total remittances into earned and unearned remittances, and isolate their impacts on productivity-an individual …

remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is … little reason to expect large growth effects of remittances in the origin economy. Migration and remittances clearly have …While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty …

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for … sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …

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 … from the 49th and 64th round migration related National Sample Surveys, the Reserve Bank of India and the 2001 Census are …

support for this by estimating the effects of remittances conditional on migration status. Our results show positive effects …We exploit the size of the 2010 Ecuadorian Census to estimate the effect of remittances on secondary school enrollment … across four key dimensions: gender, household wealth, rural vs. urban, and family migration status. Using a bivariate probit …

Remittances from overseas can encourage human capital investment and improve educational outcomes in developing … of remittances on the human capital formation of school-age children. After correcting for selection bias and other … potential endogeneities with instrumental variables and fixed effects regressions, remittances are found to have negative …

. 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 … their immediate family members to the host country, and thus, send less money to the source country in remittances. While …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual …

This study examines the role of migrant's remittances on labor supply for a panel of Peruvian households over the … period 2002-2006. Remittances can undermine the incentives to work. On the other hand, the in ows may alleviate credit … estimations, we show that remittances have no average effect on employment. However, (male) wage- employment decreases, and self …