For Indonesia, international migration was an interesting phenomenon in overcoming labor problems of employment crisis. In addition to obtain benefits remittance from sending productive age workers abroad, the Government can solve problem unemployment. Based on cclassification, encouraging factors for labors migrate were divided into three categories, including demand pull, supply push and netw...

Recent increases in U.S. immigration enforcement at the local and state level may be impacting remittance flows to developing countries by curtailing undocumented immigration, restricting the cyclicality of migration flows and limiting employment opportunities for the undocumented. We examine how the remitting patterns of Mexican migrants in the United States are being impacted by two types of ...

In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing economies. By using panel VAR methods we are able to compensate for both data limitations and endogeneity among variables. We find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also detect an inverse relationship b...

There is substantial interest in development policies related to international migration from developing countries. In the last decade, there has been a wave of rigorous empirical studies (many of which are randomized controlled trials) quantifying the impacts of such policies. This article examines evidence on the impacts of policies in five areas: 1) migration facilitation, 2) migrant educati...

Abstract Remittance inflows are driven by macroeconomic conditions in the home and host economies, respectively. In this paper, we study effect of US monetary policy on remittance flows into economies Latin American Caribbean. The role Fed for remittances has not yet been studied. We estimate a series panel local projections eight countries. A surprise change strong highly significant negative ...

Migrant networks are an important catalyst for promoting FDI flows between countries. Migrants also send increasingly large remittances to their home countries. This paper considers how these two capital flows are related, specifically examining how remittance flows respond to the amount of FDI inflows to a country. Using a panel of 118 countries over 1980-2010, we estimate a random effects mod...

In this paper we investigate income effects on education expenditures in Mexico. We use the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de Hogares (ENIGH) from 1984 until 2004. Specifically, we conduct a test of Friedman’s Permanent Income Hypothesis by exploring the difference in the effects of remittances and other types of income on human capital investment in Mexico. In order to identify the per...

Keeping pace with technological progress, robot sensors are generating increasing amounts of data; a particular recent trend has been a shift from single-beam LIDAR sensors to multi-beam versions. Whereas single-beam sensors can often be calibrated without great difficulty, deriving an accurate calibration for lasers with many simultaneous beams has been a tedious and significantly harder chall...