Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze differential consumption patterns of Pakistani migrant households resulting from foreign and domestic remittances. Design/methodology/approach: Using the Working-Leser model and a number of matching techniques, the authors analyze a...

Remittances are playing an increasingly important role in the economies of developing countries. In this paper, we study the effects of these flows on Pakistan's labour market. We employ the 2007--2008 Household Integrated Economic Survey and Probit as well as Propensity Score Matching...