This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …

neglected - economic and socio-cultural effects of the brain drain. Remittances of African migrants contribute considerably not …

This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …

parent migrating, and the impact of migration and remittances on the children left behind is still notably absent in the …