assumption has recently been dropped: a large literature studies the optimal migration duration in an intertemporal framework. In … our work we study how selective immigration policies affect the human capital accumulation and the migration duration … two periods: there is no reason to consider a single migration spell, and our infinite-horizon model includes an aggregate …

According to the literature, the effect of remittances on income inequality in origin countries of migrants is not clear … the impact of remittances on income inequality depends on whom migrates, i.e. on the location migrants occupy in income … distribution in their home country. However, to our knowledge, no macroeconomic study examining the remittances effect on inequality …

This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural … households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a … substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision (through remittances from migrants) and, thus, exert a positive effect on …

This paper fills the gap between individual selection models and collective approaches of migration. We build a … theoretical model in order to account for household-based migration decisions and derive its implications on migrant selection …. Assuming that the origin household maximizes a collective utility including earnings but also further remittances when choosing …

impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what … transmission channels through which remittances affect households and sectors. I give a particular attention to the investment of … remittances in the real estate sector, by allowing a segmentation of the savings market. To begin with, I assess the negative …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

Migrants' remittances should b e considered as one of the determinants of migration ows, since they have an economic … remittances. We therefore use an epidemic mo del to formalize such mechanisms, and include these feedback e ects in the migrants …

This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US … per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing … of remittance inflows the results suggest that remittances lead to a decrease in the prevalence of working poor in …