-monotonic: remittances seem to decrease economic inequality in communities with a long migration tradition but to increase inequality within …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 …

migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … associated jobs involve finer employee-employer matching and offer greater returns to experience. Networks are more valuable for …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within …