migrants may reduce their ability to send remittances and, at the same time, migrants' concern for their family's wellbeing may … elasticities of remittances with respect to employment conditions at both origin and destination places of Mexican migrants. Our …During a global shock two forces act upon international remittances in opposite directions: income losses among …

redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …

While recent literature has pointed out that migrants ́remittances have a positive impact on savings with financial … reception of remittances facilitates taking up loans from formal or informal sources among Mexican households and finds positive … and statistically significant effects of remittances on borrowing and on the existence of debts. We address methodological …

are not sufficient. Conditional on these factors, there is a "polarization" of educational choices: migrants are more … ambitions allow higher skilled migrants to hieventertiary education despite their less favourable background characteristics. On … the other hand, less skilled migrants who in Germany's tracked school system do not have the option to enter academic …