differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …

In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that … host country and that this could reduce the occurrence of strategic remittances. In a simple model with two types of …