to foreign capital inflow through remittances; remittances represented around 13% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 … and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific … well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

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 …

In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate … channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The index brings together information from existing measures, reflecting … the more financial development in a country, the smaller becomes the impact of remittances on economic growth and it can …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and … substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis … concerns. We find that remittances increase the likelihood of human, physical, and social capital investment in most of our …

survey on migration and remittances in Kazakhstan which was conducted in four cities (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and Pavlodar …-migrants. Furthermore, the prevalence of remittances and attitudes towards migration are discussed. …

The essence of this study is to verify the macroeconomic implications of cross-border remittances for economic growth …, remittances contribute significantly to economic growth in small-open developing economies. Remittances, however, contribute more … to long-run economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean than to Sub-Saharan Africa. In dynamic terms, remittances …

This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both … transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional … level, high prevalence of remittances is associated with a higher likelihood of informal work among non-migrant households …