of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …