This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative …

sending and receiving countries. In a calibrated multi-country model, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with … that more – not less – high-skilled migration would increase world welfare …

improves left-behinds' welfare through two different channels: (i) migrants' remittances exceed their forgone income …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances …

world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …, brought about by migration, with huge statistical observed positive effects of received worker remittances on smart human …

We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model …