in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances …

in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances …

calculation of the impact of migration on the distribution of household income. Remittances, and especially foreign pensions …This article analyses the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algerian emigration …, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the effects of remittances on the distribution of household incomes. The …

controls on illegal migration, this may impact both migration durations and remittances. Tighter borders increase crossing …The migration of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. is one of the largest bilateral migration flows in the world and … remittances from these immigrants represent a crucial source of income for Mexican households. As the United States tightens …

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 …

proved elusive thus far. This paper explores the potential for migration to serve as a safety valve as well as a medium term …

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 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 …

reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural … villages of Mozambique using a randomized field experiment. We find that mobile money increased migration out of these villages …, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …

household-level idiosyncratic shocks. Importantly, we find that the availability of mobile money increased migration out of …