incomes, migration stocks, exchange rates, and the banking system. The relative persistence of remittances suggests that it is …How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by … over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that remittances are slow to respond to natural disasters, unresponsive to outbreaks …

This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with …

. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth …, investment and savings, net foreign debt, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate … shows permanent effects, which are positive only for China. In the poor countries, investment, remittances, savings, tax …

emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows … have a negative sign in the presence of migration stock variables; (iii) stocks of migrants in six OECD countries and in …

The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … and poor countries on remittances and migration generates some highly non-linear results in the baseline simulation. Then … we analyze the counterfactuals "remittances send only 50%" or "no net migration". The results for the direct effects are …

We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of … methods. Remittances increase the savings ratio in both samples. Savings have an (inverted) u-shaped impact on the tax ratio … richer sample, governments raise less tax revenues but spend more on education in direct response to remittances. Governments …

remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible until a certain value, beyond which the opposite holds; (ii …) lagged dependent migration flows have a negative sign even in the presence of migration stock variables; (iii) migration … stocks have S-shaped effects: at sufficiently low values higher migration stocks support emigration; beyond a threshold value …

indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt …, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate dynamic equations of all these variables … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public …

flows as a share of the labour force and GDP per capita growth and also for all their regressors including remittances and … (2000) for which aid is about 9.5% of GDP. The partial effects in these regressions are as follows. Remittances enhance net … integrate all equations to a dynamic system and run a simulation. The result is an endogenous migration hump with several peaks …