The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … remittances do have a negative effect on economic growth, which indicates that the moral hazard problem in remittances is severe … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for …

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to …

Hardly any studies have investigated the impact of migrant remittances on economic growth (EG) and inequality in the … effect of remittances and foreign direct investment is lower on economic growth and inequality than the individual effect of … influence economic growth, their inflow also promotes a high level of migration and absorbs a large workforce by influencing the …

aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally …The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

development in the remittances-inclusive growth relationship. First, evidence based on the system GMM estimator shows that … income inequality dimensions of inclusive growth, we find that although remittances are ineffective in boosting the former … of remittances on inclusive growth. Third, our threshold analysis indicates that for financial development to interact …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing …

remittances tendto invest more in the signaling game of wealth. …

The study investigated the relationship among remittances, financial development and economic growth in a panel of 20 … financial development acted as a substitute in the remittances-growth relationship. Finally, unidirectional causal relationships …/ARDL estimations with panel unit root and cointegration tests. After establishing cointegration, remittances and financial development …

. Remittances can help reduce output growth volatility thanks to their considerable magnitude, stability and low pro … over the period 1980-2003, we provide robust evidence that remittances are negatively correlated to output growth …Since output growth volatility has negative effects on growth, poverty and welfare, especially in poorer countries, it …

general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives …