We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

of migrants from a specific source country may be included as an additional explanatory variable. Our study provides a … concise review of the relationship between migrants and their international economic linkages. It then focuses on Foreign … both directions (inward and outward), and that these impacts are higher when migrants are highly-educated and skilled …

, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …

mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …

households with return migrants, households with current migrants, and equivalent nonmigrant households in terms of a variety of … economic position. We also find that remittances from females emphasize investment in home improvements and acquisition of farm … land and nonfarm assets, whereas remittances of men are channeled more toward housing assets and business ventures. …

destinations, developed by Grogger and Hanson (2008), by allowing for unobserved individual heterogeneity between migrants and non-migrants …