-sectional dependence and individual effects are controlled for, remittances to sub-Saharan Africa as a whole increase the underlying real …

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 …

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 …

This paper uses a production function to examine the channels through which remittances affect output per worker in 31 … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1980-2010. We find that remittances directly increase output per worker if … remittances have increased human capital among the low-income nations, among the upper-middle-income nations, they have mostly …

migrants’ remittances on financial inclusion in selected SSA countries. Pooled Mean Group (PMG) form of panel ARDL was employed … robustness checks. For the purpose of this empirical investigation, we collected data on Remittances, Account Ownership and … Income Per Capita for 27 SSA countries based on data availability. The conclusion is that remittances have no significant …

Despite the established link between oil rent fluctuations and remittances received, its plausible joint effect on … positive macroeconomic signals such as remittances mitigate the negative effect of oil rents on economic growth in a sample of … and net effect on economic growth from the interaction between remittances and oil rent. In addition, the unconditional …