of migration and remittances (that is, a .private safety net. built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on … relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and … remittances are then compared with those based on a no-migration scenario. Counterfactual household incomes are estimated, taking …

In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing … find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also … of disaster shocks on the real exchange rate and on the level of remittances across the two samples. …

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national … empirical results imply that for students with a migration background a key for catching up is the language spoken at home. We …

During the twentieth century, internal migration and urbanization shaped Brazil’s economic and social landscape. Cities … proved particularly salient. This study asks, has domestic migration to cities been part of a healthy process of economic …

context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set … collected at both ends of the migration link in Bolivia, we are able to show that migrant children significantly influence the … important role and the identity of the person responsible for the migration decision emerges as an important determinant of …