Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

How migration affects labor markets in receiving countries is well understood, but less is known about how migration …

This study aims to analyze recent trends in labor migration in six Central Asian and South Caucasian countries: Armenia …, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. As observed, migration has been an important tool for income …

rate in four economies (Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan) from the Central Asia and South Caucasus … more productive workers. Direct evidence on the remittances that each household received is not available. The empirical …