This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … “dependency” effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … we would expect given migrants' diverse backgrounds and motives for emigrating. Additionally, remitting patterns change … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …

-in-differences style identification strategy and a model with household fixed effects. The results suggest that while a migrant household … greater authority for the head of household …

is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative …This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A …

differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP … differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. Fixed effects estimations of … the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …

remittances sent by the emigrating parents might enable not only their children, but also others, to stop working. We show how …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …

a non-negligible share of households, remittances do indeed smooth household income on average. Other variables …Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing … countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing …

Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a …