This chapter uses matching techniques and a recent nationally representative household survey for Yemen combined with … weather data to measure the impact of remittances, both domestic and international, on poverty and human development outcomes … and unfavorable climate. Remittances are found to have a statistically significant impact on many of the indicators, and …

climate patterns have been a key driver of internal migration in countries such as Yemen, despite the pressures created by …Concerns abound about the potential impact of climate change on future migration, especially in the Middle East and … water scarcity. By combining data from Yemen’s latest census and a weather database as well as other geographic information …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on health outcomes in Tajikistan and finds a positive effect. While … existing literature shows that remittances increase health care expenditure, expenditure alone is an incomplete proxy for … significant share of the population. Our study explores the impact of remittances on proxies of health outcomes beyond expenditure …

. Migration and remittances may thus be contributing to informal employment in migration-sending countries. …This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both … transition economies in 2009, I find that receiving remittances increases the likelihood of working informally. At the regional …

cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because they fostered over decades … to be felt today, and constitutes one of the underlying factors for politically motivated migration. Secondly, the EU …

reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural … villages of Mozambique using a randomized field experiment. We find that mobile money increased migration out of these villages …, where we observe lower agricultural activity and investment. At the same time, remittances received and welfare of rural …

Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration … find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … possible by the flow of remittances. …

a whole; nevertheless, it also had a great impact upon the labour force market in the European countries. The migration … dropped, differentiated by certain geographic areas. This work proposes an analysis of the migration phenomenon under the … evolution in some European countries and some empirical methods for assessing the crisis impact upon remittances. The impact of …

-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas … entrepreneurship. Remittances appear to overwhelm household splitting as a causal mechanism. …