This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … of the recipient household and use it to interpret the determinants/motivations of remittances. Our results show that a …

This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …-sectional survey. Allowing for endogeneity and left-censoring of remittances, we find that the marginal propensity to save out of … remittances is well below half of that out of other sources of incomes. Moreover, we find no evidence of any direct effect of …

This paper examines the relationship between remittances from interna- tional migration and imperfections in labour and … capital markets. We use a search-matching model of the labour market to show that remittances can have two opposing effects on … worker's bargaining power is low, this causes the unemployment rate to rise. Second, remittances available for investment …