lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker remittances have received less attention in this context. This paper … provides an analysis on the magnitude of remittances, their volatility, and their relationship to other capital flows. Moreover …, we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of remittances and private capital flows. …

, only the out-migration of family members is positively associated with life evaluations, while remittances have no … are not offset by remittances. The out-migration of family members appears more traumatic in contexts where migration is … 114 countries during 2009-2011, we find that both having family members abroad and receiving remittances are positively …

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the … risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average … a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … remittances into account. Moreover, we find that marginal propensity to save for immigrants is about 40% higher than that for … natives. We then exploit a natural experiment arising from a change in nationality law in Germany in 2000 to estimate the …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

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 …

dynamics of migration. -- migration dynamics ; migrants' transfers ; follow-up migration …

influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee … us to employ the rest of regional Turkey as control group with a difference-in-difference approach to analyze the impact …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … migration to Germany and tested the model for the 1969-2004, using the cointegration technique. A single cointegrating vector is … found among the gross migration inflows and the following explanatory variables: the relative income ratio between Germany …