For many countries, remittance behaviour by migrants is an important component of their overall international financial … flows. To date, the empirical literature has analysed the propensity to remit as a function of migrants’ socio … broader context of migrants' labour, income and consumption allocation strategy. On the contrary, the migrant's income has …

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both … parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and …

We examine the effect of remittances on the migrant households consumption and saving patterns as well as their living … find that remittances seem to change the household consumption patterns. However, we do not find strong evidence that … indicates remittances improve these households' living standard. Moreover, it seems that remittance households do not enjoy …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

theoretical and empirical discussion. The aim of the article is to assess patterns of remittances sent by Ukrainian migrants … migrants whose life centers are still located in sending communities remittances easily become an important part of contractual …Analysis of remittances lies in the very centre of the scientific debate on developmental impacts of migration. On the …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

Migrants' remittances to developing countries have increased in recent decades, partly due to reduced transactions … explanation. Despite the difficulties female migrants encounter in the labor market, their total remittances may be higher and … more resilient than those of male migrants, owing to these women's stronger links to family members left behind and self …

complementarities between various immigrants' investment behaviors. We find that temporary migrants are more likely to remit and invest … behavior across migrants of different origins. …

. 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 …Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …

and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific …Die kosovarische Wirtschaft hängt stark von Geldflüssen aus dem Ausland ab. Eine hohe Zahl von Migranten tragen mit …. Das Hauptzielland von Migranten aus dem Kosovo ist Deutschland, wo allein geschätzte 300 000 albanische Migranten aus dem …