to financial markets and test whether remittances are countercyclical and serve as an insurance mechanism against … secular increase in the trend growth of remittances and random cyclical fluctuations around this trend. In a purely … households facing an increasing trend for remittances. A flexible floating regime is preferred when unanticipated shocks driving …

country into stagnation. We also find that immigrants' remittances are harmful to the host country under full employment but …

country into stagnation. We also find that immigrants' remittances are harmful to the host country under full employment but …

Using disaggregated sectorial data, this study shows that rising levels of remittances have spending effects that lead …

This paper investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient … remittances; the share of consumption in tradables; and the sensitivity of a country’s risk premium to remittance flows. Panel …

search information from Google Trends, we take a novel approach to explaining the inflow of remittances to a developing …

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 …

Remittances sent by refugees to their home countries has been a hotly debated policy topic in Germany over the past … of people living in Germany who send remittances abroad has changed over time according to their migration background … analysis shows that migrants without a refugee background send remittances more often, while refugees are often rarely able to …

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …

Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they … Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we show that there exists a dual causality between receipt of remittances … first to be able to specify the mechanism behind the link between remittances and migration. We find evidence that …