We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances are then compared with those based on a no-migration scenario. Counterfactual household incomes are estimated, taking …

dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human … capital formation response to the prospect of migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …

indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances … capital investment, remittances may serve as a vehicle for growth. In this paper, we use the 2010 Nepal Living Standards … Survey III (NLSS III) to examine how remittances affect household expenditures on human capital investment. Overall, our …

The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using …, and the number of hours worked per week declines with the size of remittances received. The size of the impact varies … between urban and rural households. Remittances to urban households have a larger impact on moving children completely out of …

This paper analyzes the determinants of international remittances received during the post electoral crisis in Côte d …

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with …

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 …

The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … and poor countries on remittances and migration generates some highly non-linear results in the baseline simulation. Then … we analyze the counterfactuals "remittances send only 50%" or "no net migration". The results for the direct effects are …

indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt …, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate dynamic equations of all these variables … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public …