lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker remittances have received less attention in this context. This paper … provides an analysis on the magnitude of remittances, their volatility, and their relationship to other capital flows. Moreover …, we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of remittances and private capital flows. …

We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … equalizing change in the marginal effects of remittances was the highest. This provides supporting evidence for the migration … diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level …

A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success …

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding … matching ; business cycle …

of the labor market such as the matching technology that pairs vacancies with unemployed workers. We estimate on US data …

This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage …. -- Sticky wages ; staggered Nash bargaining ; trend inflation ; unemployment ; search and matching …