The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

Remittances as one of the main benefits of international migration have a great and important impact on the countries … of origins and make migration a topic of special interest for many researchers. Workers’ remittances represent an … in large quantity. For many economies, remittances represent a sizable and stable source of funds that sometimes exceed …

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary remittances). Using Gallup Balkan Monitor survey data in instrumental … is offset by receiving monetary remittances. …

This paper aims to analyse migration and remittances in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) on the case … Ukrainian Migration Project (UMP). More specifically, it seeks to examine features and determinants of migration and remittances … receiving household. Moreover, we did not find any support for channelling remittances primarily into non-productive consumption …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …

This paper empirically examines the factors causing the recently increased flow of workers' remittances to developing … countries. The main question we seek to answer is whether these increased remittances are the result of increased amounts sent … the hypotheses concerning motivations to remit. Using a large data set on migrant stock and remittances we show that home …

resulted in a large increase in remittances to New Member States (NMS) and were comparable in size to FDI or EU funds. This … paper adds to the literature by analyzing the impact of remittances and migration jointly, rather than separately, on the … directly through migration, and labor demand indirectly through remittances increasing capital stock. We develop an incomplete …

While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory — arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

This paper investigates the macroeconomic determinants of global bilateral remittances flows. Using data covering 216 … country-specific covariates in explaining remittances. Robustly across alternative estimation techniques and specifications …