Immigrant networks and remittances: Cheaper together?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Immigrant Networks and Remittances: Cheaper together?∗
We estimate the causal effects of immigrant networks on individuals’ remittance sending behavior for migrants from many different countries residing in Spain. Our methodology addresses typical issues that arise when estimating network effects: reverse causality, common unobserved factors, and self-selection. In particular, we instrument the size of networks by predicting the number of migrants ...
متن کاملImmigrant remittances and the venture investment environment of developing countries
Received: 29 May 2010 Revised: 1 May 2011 Accepted: 18 July 2011 Online publication date: 8 September 2011 Abstract Despite the increasing importance of financial and social remittances to developing countries, their impact on home-country venture-investing environments has been largely overlooked. I develop a framework grounded in transaction costs economics and social knowledge theories to in...
متن کاملMigration Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Migration network theory addresses the cumulative causation of migration as a result of reduced social, economic, and emotional costs of migration pursuant to the formation of migration networks. Because it introduces a sociological dimension, network theory improves the mechanical and economistic “push and pull” conceptions that prevailed earlier, including world systems versions thereof. None...
متن کاملGender, Migration and Remittances
51_10 Representing the second largest source of external funding for developing countries, remittances – money transfers by migrants to their relatives or other persons in countries of origin – are recognized by governments and international organizations as important tools for reducing household poverty and enhancing local development.1 However, it is often implicitly assumed in research, poli...
متن کاملRemittances and immigration enforcement
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 ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: World Development
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0305-750X
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.07.008