T he migration of labor across international boundaries has increased rapidly since 1990. More than 190 million individuals now live outside the countries of their birth, and the majority of migrants leave developing countries for countries with higher living standards than those of their home countries. Remittance flows have risen quickly over the same time frame, and in 2007 aggregate officia...

This study attempts an empirical analysis of the effect external remittance on labor productivity in Pakistan. used time series data from 1975 to 2019. The Johanson co-integration approach and Trace Maximum Lamda tests were for economic analysis. personal remittance, Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF), Officially Exchange Rate (PER) depicted significant positive relationships Foreign Direct I...

Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing in Ireland was o...

Formal remittance flows to Pakistan have shown noticeable growth over the past decade. Using bilateral remittance data for 23 major source countries, this study examines the external and internal factors driving these remittance flows during the period 2001-2011. We estimate a gravity model for bilateral remittance flows using a variety of panel data techniques suitable to control for unobserve...

Governance today is being reconfigured by the evolving global demand for unskilled labor in the North and elite intransigence linked to limited capital inflows in the South. The emerging profile is one of dual economies wherein the wealthy dominate decision-making systems and strategic sectors while struggling to sustain a return on their investments, and the poor either emigrate or administer ...

"There is concern that Pacific Island economies dependent on remittances of migrants will endure foreign exchange shortages and falling living standards as remittance levels fall because of lower migration rates and the belief that migrants' willingness to remit declines over time. The empirical validity of the remittance-decay hypothesis has never been tested. From survey data on Tongan and We...

© C r Abstract While a sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households, we have a limited understanding of how the predictability of these money flows affect their usage by remittance-receiving households. Using data from Mexico, we find that both the size and the uncertainty of remittances raise asset accumulation among recipient households. Thes...

1 ©Meir Kohn 2014 8. THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM OF PAYMENTS AND REMITTANCE Merchants constantly needed to make and receive payment—often in large amounts. They did so when buying and selling goods and services, when borrowing and lending, when paying tolls and taxes, and when discharging debts and distributing profits. Also, because merchants operated in multiple locations distant from one another, ...

Using nationally representative panel data from Nepal, we estimate a household consumption function and simulate the impacts of remittance on poverty and inequality. We study how these impacts vary with regional maturity of migration process and country-source of remittance. The results show that remittance has positive impacts on reduction of all the incidence, depth and severity of poverty; t...