Migrants’ intentions to return home and capital transfers: A study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia

Ahlburg, Dennis A.; Brown, Richard P.

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“…Thus, the model implies that remittances increase with (i) migrants' education and (ii) migrants' distance to origin, proxies for costs of education and moving to destination, respectively. These predictions, which are specific to the investment model, have been supported empirically in various settings (Ahlburg and Brown 1998;Cai 2003;Cox et al 1998;Hoddinott 1994;Lillard and Willis 1997;Lucas and Stark 1985;Regmi and Tisdell 2002). Another prediction, common also to the altruistic and insurance models, suggests that remittances increase with (iii) risks to household's income in origin, which create higher incentives to invest in migration.…”

Section: Overview Of the Empirical Predictions Of Remittance Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…The exchange motive implies that migrants remit to buy services or to secure future inheritances from households (Cox 1987;Cox, Eser and Jimenez 1998;de la Briere et al 2002;Hoddinott 1994;Sana 2005). The insurance motive attributes remittances to a mutual risk diversification arrangement between the migrant and the household (Rosenzweig 1988;Stark and Levhari 1982), while the investment motive views remittances as a repayment for past loans from the household (Ahlburg and Brown 1998;Cai 2003;Lucas and Stark 1985;Poirine 1997;Stark and Bloom 1985).…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Garip

2012

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Prior work has modeled individuals' migration and remittance behavior separately, and reported mixed empirical support for various remittance motivations. This study offers an integrated approach, and considers migration as a mechanism for selection in a censored probit model of remittance behavior. This approach leads to different conclusions about the determinants of remittance behavior in the Thai internal migration setting. To the extent that these determinants capture different remittance motivations, as prior research has presumed, the analysis also provides varying support for these motivations. These results suggest that migration and remittance behavior are interrelated, and it is crucial for an analysis of remittance behavior to control for the selectivity of migration.

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Section: Overview Of the Empirical Predictions Of Remittance Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 76%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Garip

2012

Popul Res Policy Rev

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“…Da Vanzo 1983; Borjas and Bratsberg 1996;Reagan and Olsen 2000;Dustmann 2003a;Nekby 2006;Jensen and Pedersen 2007;Toma and Castagnone 2015), or (2) to consider migration intentions and eventually the desired length of stay, the approach more frequently used (e.g. Waldorf 1995;Ahlburg and Brown 1998;Coniglio et al 2009;Zaiceva and Zimmermann 2008 and references therein;de Haas and Fokkema 2011;Anniste and Tammaru 2014;de Vroome and van Tubergen 2014;Carling and Pettersen 2014;Carling and Erdal 2014) despite the widespread scepticism.…”

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Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy

Belgiojoso

2016

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The decision to emigrate from the country of origin may not be a permanent one: migrants can decide to return home or to emigrate to a third country. This phenomenon, established for some time in certain other European countries, has become an important one for Italy only recently. This paper contributes to the knowledge of migrants' intentions in two ways: on the one hand, it analyses the factors associated with indecision about future plans; on the other, it focuses on the desired length of stay and its relationship with attachments (family, economic, socio-cultural and psychological) to host and home country. We used two logistic regression models: one for migrants' indecision and the other for migrants' desired length of stay. The data were collected by survey, coordinated by the ISMU Foundation and conducted in 2008 and 2009 with more than 12,000 migrants living in Italy. According to our results, indecision seems to be associated with an intermediate phase of migration at the early stage of family development in the case of negative balance of the migration experience, while attachment to the host country is associated with longer stay, and no attachments or attachment to the country of origin are associated with shorter stay.

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“…Another reason for remitting money back home is to make a specific purchase or investment (e.g., setting up a small business). This is particularly common among temporary migrants who migrate for the specific purpose of accumulating assets for future retirement (Ahlburg andBrown 1998, Glytsos 1997). A third motive for remitting contemplated in the literature is insurance.…”

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Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States: Assessing the impact of amnesty programs

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Mazzolari

2010

Journal of Development Economics

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Migrants’ intentions to return home and capital transfers: A study of Tongans and Samoans in Australia

Cited by 78 publications

References 22 publications

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy

Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States: Assessing the impact of amnesty programs

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