Download or read book Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016 written by Dilip Ratha and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remittances remain a key source of funds for developing countries, far exceeding official development assistance and even foreign direct investment. Remittances have proved to be more stable than private debt and portfolio equity flows, and less volatile than official aid flows, and their annual flow can match or surpass foreign exchange reserves in many small countries. Even in large emerging markets, such as India, remittances are equivalent to at least a quarter of total foreign exchange reserves. India, China, Philippines and Mexico are the top recipients of migrant remittances. The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016 attempts to present numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration, skilled emigration, and remittance flows for 210 countries and 15 regional and income groups. The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2016 updates the 2011 edition of the Factbook with additional data on bilateral migration and remittances and second generation diasporas, collected from various sources, including national censuses, labor force surveys, population registers, and other national sources.
Download or read book Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond written by Ibrahim Sirkeci and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008 financial crisis, the possible changes in remittance-sending behavior and potential avenues to alleviate a probable decline in remittance flows became concerns. This book brings together a wide array of studies from around the world focusing on the recent trends in remittance flows. The authors have gathered a select group of researchers from academic, practitioner and policy making bodies. Thus the book can be seen as a conversation between the different stakeholders involved in or affected by remittance flows globally. The book is a first-of-its-kind attempt to analyze the effects of an ongoing crisis on remittance flows globally. Data analyzed by the book reveals three trends. First, The more diversified the destinations and the labour markets for migrants the more resilient are the remittances sent by migrants. Second, the lower the barriers to labor mobility, the stronger the link between remittances and economic cycles in that corridor. And third, as remittances proved to be relatively resilient in comparison to private capital flows, many remittance-dependent countries became even more dependent on remittance inflows for meeting external financing needs. There are several reasons for migration and remittances to be relatively resilient to the crisis. First, remittances are sent by the stock (cumulative flows) of migrants, not only by the recent arrivals (in fact, recent arrivals often do not remit as regularly as they must establish themselves in their new homes). Second, contrary to expectations, return migration did not take place as expected even as the financial crisis reduced employment opportunities in the US and Europe. Third, in addition to the persistence of migrant stocks that lent persistence to remittance flows, existing migrants often absorbed income shocks and continued to send money home. Fourth, if some migrants did return or had the intention to return, they tended to take their savings back to their country of origin. Finally, exchange rate movements during the crisis caused unexpected changes in remittance behavior: as local currencies of many remittance recipient countries depreciated sharply against the US dollar, they produced a sale effect on remittance behavior of migrants in the US and other destination countries.
Download or read book Return Migration and Remittances written by William F. Stinner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on return migration and emigrant remittances in the Caribbean - discusses the Motivation for and types of return, historical and current trends, geographic distribution, demographic aspects, use of remittances, related social implications and economic implications, etc.; includes case studies of Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Suriname. Bibliographys and references.
Download or read book Return Migration and Remittances written by Anne Talsma and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development Dimension Migration Remittances and Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents the current situation with regard to the magnitude and economic impact of migrants’ remittances to their countries of origin.
Download or read book Global Economic Prospects 2006 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that development countries' remittance receipts totaled 160 billion in 2004, more than twice the size of official aid. This year's edition of Global Economic Prospects focuses on remittances and migration. The bulk of the book covers remittances.
Download or read book Return Migration and Remittances written by Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies (Smithsonian Institution) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Migration development Nexus written by Ninna Nyberg Sørensen and published by International Org. for Migration. This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.
Download or read book Return Migration and Regional Economic Problems written by Russell King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind. International in scope, the book includes chapters on return migration in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Jamaica, Algeria and the Middle East.
Download or read book Remittances Savings and Return Migration Under Uncertainty written by Matthieu Delpierre and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances and return migration, and stresses the impact of uncertainty on migrant decisions. Theoretical analyses of the motives for remittances generally neglect these features, and do not include alternative strategies such as savings, which potentially have very different implications for both migrants and origin countries. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty. This setting, which applies to long-term international migration, addresses the following questions. Which migrant characteristics affect their remittance-saving portfolio decisions? How do these decisions interact with migration success and return plans? In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving decisions at an early stage of migration, when migration success and return options are uncertain. Over time, information about professional prospects is acquired, and conditionally on past decisions, migrants adjust their return plans. We show that migrants anticipating a large wage in the host country, or a relatively low risk of migration failure are less likely to remit and to return, and more likely to save. These results are in line with recent empirical evidence, such as the large share of non-remitting migrants, the fact that migrants facing higher risks are more likely to remit, and the potentially poor economic performance of returnees. Finally, we provide a rationale for the support by relatives in the sending country of low-skill, illegal migration.
Download or read book Returning Remitting Receiving written by and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Migration and Remittances written by Ali M. Mansoor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is relatively large by international standards, driven both by political factors (the 1990 collapse of the Soviet system, ensuing emergence of conflicts and new states, and opening of borders with Europe) and economic factors (abrupt economic deterioration and corresponding search for better employment and living conditions). The report anlayzes the different kinds of migration as well as the policies on both sides of the equation to limit negative side effects (like emargination, criminal activities, and brain drain) and maximize positive ones (increased labor pool for services, remittances, return migration with improved human and financial capital).
Download or read book New Perspectives on Remittances from Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States written by Germán Zárate-Hoyos and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Return Migration Migrants Savings and Sending Countries Economic Development written by Rosemarie Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remittances and Return Migration written by William Collier and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper utilizes survey data of return migrants to analyze the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three sending countries in the Maghreb, namely Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. We investigate the remittance behavior using the migrants' conditions before migration as well as during the migration experience. Using a two-part model, we show that the decision to remit and the amount remitted depend on a combination of different migrant characteristics and reasons for migration as well as the form of migration. More importantly, we also consider if the remittance behavior is dependent on the type of return: “decided” or “compelled.” We show that the two groups have different incentives to remit, which can help explain the link between type of migrants and their remittance behavior.
Download or read book Return Migration and Crises in Non Western Countries written by Jungwon Yeo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education Remittances and Return Migration written by Erlfang Tsai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neoclassical brain drain hypothesis contended higher returns to skill in the developed world would lead to skilled emigration from the developing world, depleting the poorest countries of their skilled individuals and trapping them at low levels of human capital. However, descriptive and qualitative evidence suggest skilled emigration also has the potential to generate brain gains for developing countries by directly increasing or indirectly promoting human capital investment in the sending country. Does the likelihood of brain gains depend on migrants skill level? Drawing on cross-sectional data from the World Banks Migration and Remittances Surveys, I consider the relationship between migrant educational attainment and two specific channels of brain gain: remittances and return migration. I build on empirical work by Collier, Piracha, and Randazzo (2011) and others, using a probit model to estimate the effect of migrants education on their propensity to remit and further analyzing the characteristics of return migrants. I find no systematic impact of migrant education on propensity to remit and significant heterogeneity among return migrants by sending country, demonstrating the context-dependent nature of brain gains and the challenges of linking migration to human capital accumulation and development.
