Title

Immigrants and Their International Money Flows

Year

2007

Abstract

This book consists of a series of studies on the topic of international migration with an emphasis on workers' remittances. Chapters cover the impact of remittances on economic development and the interplay of immigration policies with human capital acquisition and labor markets in out-migration areas.

Contents

  1. Migration and Remittances / Susan Pozo
  2. International Migration and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Recent Data / Robert E.B. Lucas
  3. The Effect of International Migration on Educated Unemployment / Oded Stark and C. Simon Fan
  4. How Does Migration Affect Local Development?: What Mexico's ExperienceTells Us / Christopher Woodruff
  5. Remittance Patterns of Latin American Immigrants in the United States / Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
  6. Remittances in the Pacific / David J. McKenzie
  7. The Power of Home: Remittances to Families and Communities / Leah K. VanWey

ISBN

9780880992992 (pbk.) ; 9780880993258 (cloth)

Subject Areas

GLOBAL ISSUES; Immigration