Rapoport, Hillel; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1135-1198). 2006
-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the …
