How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty … finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be … substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new locations and income earned in the home informal economy (without migration) are …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …

Global migration database -- Quantifying international migration: a database of bilateral migrant stocks / Christopher … R. Parsons, Ronald Skeldon, Terrie L. Walmsley and L. Alan Winters -- Impact on development -- The impact of remittances …. Humberto Lopez -- Does work migration spur investment in origin communities? Entrepreneurship, schooling and child health in …

countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing … causality and endogeneity and find that while income smoothing does not appear to be the main motive for sending remittances in … a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …