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 …

; Remittances ; German Socio Economic Panel …

or personal transfers) by 1139 pairs of migrants and recipients of remittances in Moldova in 2006. Explanatory variables … migrant’s irregular legal status in the host country, and short migration spells. -- Migration ; remittances ; Moldova …

issues to assess the impact of remittances on labour market outcomes. The results in terms of a decline of labour supply in … the presence of remittances are in line with those observed thus far in the literature. However, the impact of … international remittances does not seem to be important in determining the labour participation behaviour, particularly for women …

remittances by workers deployed overseas. The main benefit of the phenomenon is an easing of the fiscal burden arising from the …

This paper provides a fact sheet of domestic and international remittances at the State level and across household … characteristics and discusses the extent of remittance dependency, it's growth since the 1990's, the different uses of remittances …-08, 60% being Inter-State transfers and 80% directed towards rural households (b) Domestic remittances financed over 30% of …

Migrant remittances reached 21 billion dollars in SSA in 2008 according to the World Bank estimates. Despite these … existing studies on the impact of remittances in SSA have been mostly in the form of case studies at the microeconomic level or … reports. The objective of our study is to fill in this gap by investigating the impact of remittances on savings and …

This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a combination of …

The study proposes to evaluate the impact of the current financial crisis on remittances received by three South Asian … countries, namely Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The objective is twofold: to forecast the impact of change in remittances … remittances will be used in a Keynesian framework to assess the impact of remittances on the growth of these countries while at …

In this paper, I study the effect of remittances on economic growth of the Fiji Islands. I provide empirical evidences … based on data for the period 1979-2007 that remittances have a positive and significant impact on growth of Fiji's economy …. The investigation also indicates the need to encourage financial sector development and consider furthering remittances …