After eighteen years of mass migration of the Albanian population, primarily to Greece and Italy, a question arises … role and the importance of remittances and their use in Albania through a survey of 400 Albanian immigrants, legally … urban areas of the Vlorë region in Albania. We build on the theory of “New Economics of Labour Migration” which considers …

Remittances have become an important source of foreign exchange earning in many developing economies like Nigeria as … important for remitting, as per capita income differentials, gross capital formation, official Nigerian migrant remittances and … economic/political freedom are significant and positive, implying that remittances are countercyclical in nature. However …

position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic situation of the sending countries through remittances and rise …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … unwarranted. First, sustained migratory flows may be associated with an equally large flow of remittances. Second, migrants may … to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education …

This paper investigates how sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries could harness remittances through formal channels for … ability of sub-Saharan African countries to harness remittances for development. Besides remitting home for altruistic reasons …

individual effects are controlled for, host country economic conditions override home country income in driving remittances to …

individual effects are controlled for, host country economic conditions override home country income in driving remittances to …