associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … measured by the Human Capital Index, than is typical for countries with similar levels of per capita income, and this may … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …

of remittances sent back by migrants to their families of origin. In agricultural settings, where those left behind are …

Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with … with standard observational estimators. It finds large effects on spending, borrowing, and human capital investment, but no … effects on saving or entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism …

Although measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty …. First, it offers evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory -- arising from … the greatest driver of rising remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the …

remittances caused an increase in rural wages and an increase in income, but a decrease in land prices. Considered together … brought about by migration and remittances on Nepal's Himalayan forests. The authors assemble a unique village-panel dataset … combining remote sensing data on land use and forest cover change with data from the census and multiple rounds of living …

This paper studies the question of whether exchange rate policy affects the impact of remittances on economic growth in … regime classification, whereas the data for remittances and all other variables are from the World Bank's World Development … economic growth following an increase in remittances, but also that the impact of remittances on growth is positive under a …

, capital, and productivity growth. The paper models the behavior of the informal sector based on the following fundamental … asymmetry: formal firms confront higher labor costs while informal firms face higher capital costs and lower productivity. Using … capital and labor in a modern economy. Second, it opens the possibility of labor migration from a rudimentary economy with an …

higher in households where women own a larger share of the land and when they are more educated. Controlling for the gender …