How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty … finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be … substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new locations and income earned in the home informal economy (without migration) are …

. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

Recorded remittances to Africa have grown dramatically over the past decade. Yet data limitations still mean relatively …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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 …

This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … Jamaica or El Salvador – are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The quantitative … inherently multi-country nature of both migration and other forms of integration, such as international trade and remittance …

Remittances are a major source of external finance for many developing countries but the cost of sending remittances … remains high for many migration corridors. International efforts to lower costs by facilitating the entry of new financial … remittance products but does not change either the frequency or level of remittances. …

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 …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …