and its remittances sending migrants, e.g. the UNDP's 2010 Kosovo Remittance Study, this discussion paper puts a specific … with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as … well as the remittances receiving household in Kosovo. In our analysis of migrant households, we present results on socio …

role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic …As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances roughly 12% of its gross … domestic product in 2008. Remittances have become the single most important source of foreign exchange to the economy and a …

This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left … “dependency” effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the … income raises the likelihood of household spending on asset accumulation by about 2 percentage points while raising the share … of household expenditures on asset accumulation by 4 to 9 percent. These results suggest that both the level and the …

While a sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households, we have a …. Using data from Mexico, we find that both the size and the uncertainty of remittances raise asset accumulation among … consideration in the analysis of household expenditure patterns and in the design of policies to leverage the most out of remittance …

The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for … remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because remittances take place under asymmetric information and economic …

Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) of 2012. We find that remittances have a positive impact on household savings and …We examine the effects of receiving remittances on household saving behaviour and expenditure patterns in Vietnam. We … tend to use remittances productively, with receiving households increasing their investments in human and physical capital …